Then did Nicholas Bly sing:
“I have lived, I have loved, I have died,
And my spirit has burned like a flame;
In the furnace of life my soul has been tried,
I have dwindled to ashes of shame.
I have glowed to the winds of my own desire,
I have flickered and flared and roared,
Through the endless night has flashed my delight
To declare my joy in the Lord.
For the Lord is life and I am His,