"Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small."
But I am poor, very poor. No good works have I to bring; no incense of holy prayers; no golden thoughts in which there mingles no alloy of impurity.
"Thou willest that thy bride should be—
I bless thy will—most poor, most low,
Receiving everything from thee,
My Lord and God. Then be it so.
"That I have nothing of my own,
Freely and gladly I to all declare.
This is my portion, this alone,