[ENTRY INTO HEAVEN—September 30, 1897]
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SELECTED POEMS OF SOEUR THÉRÈSE, THE LITTLE FLOWER OF JESUS
MY SONG OF TO-DAY
Oh! how I love Thee, Jesus! my soul aspires to Thee—
And yet for one day only my simple prayer I pray!
Come reign within my heart, smile tenderly on me,
To-day, dear Lord, to-day!
But if I dare take thought of what the morrow brings,
It fills my fickle heart with dreary, dull dismay;
I crave, indeed, my God, the Cross and sufferings,
But only for to-day!
O sweetest Star of Heaven! O Virgin, spotless, blest,
Shining with Jesus' light, guiding to Him my way!
Mother! beneath thy veil let my tired spirit rest,
For this brief passing day!
Soon shall I fly afar among the holy choirs,
Then shall be mine the joy that knoweth no decay;
And then my lips shall sing, to Heaven's angelic lyres,
The eternal, glad To-day!
June, 1894.