Matelda and the cloister of Hellfde

by of Magdeburg Mechthild

That should bear Thee aloft from thy wanderings

To the rest and song.”

The Soul’s fivefold Praise of God.

O blessed God, who pourest forth Thy store;

O God, whose love flows on for evermore;

O God, whose longing burns eternally;

O God, in whom I dwell, whose dwelling is in me;

O God, whose rest is in my love—

In Thee alone I live and move.

Of the Soul’s Complaint, of the Garden, and of the New Song.