“When mine eyes are dim with weeping,

And my tongue with grief is dumb;

And it is as if Thou wert sleeping

When my heart calleth, ‘Come;’

When I hunger with bitter hunger,

O Lord, for Thee.

Where art Thou, then, Belovèd?

Speak, speak to me.”

“I am where I was in the ancient days,

I in Myself must be;