“’Tis in mercy I have pain’d thee,

Wand’rer in a desert wild;

Now I know that I have gain’d thee,

O, my love! my undefiled!”

Thus he soothed me,

With his accents sweet and mild.

Now I follow where he leads me,

I am his, and he is mine;

With the richest love he feeds me,

While upon him I recline;