This soaring, sacred thirst,

Ambassador of bliss, approached first,

Making a place in me

That made me apt to prize, and taste, and see.

For not the objects but the sense

Of things doth bliss to souls dispense,

And make it, Lord, like thee,

Sense, feeling, taste, complacency, and sight,

These are the true and real joys,

The living, flowing, inward, melting, bright,