My needy heart do thou illume!
But the true enthusiastic lover of the divine, compelled to annihilate himself so as to become absorbed in God, the lover who no longer knows the difference between pain and delight, is represented by the Pater Ecstaticus: The condition of rest is foreign to him, ceaselessly moving up and down, he sings:
Joy's everlasting fire,
Love's glow of pure desire,
Pang of the seething breast,
Rapture a hallowed guest!
vDarts pierce me through and through,
Lances my flesh subdue,
Clubs me to atoms dash,
Lightnings athwart me flash,