Those hidden plagues which souls may justly fear.

This, my dear friends, this was my blessed case;

For nothing spoke to me but the fair face

Of Heaven and Earth, before myself could speak,

I then my Bliss did, when my silence, break.

My non-intelligence of human words

Ten thousand pleasures unto me affords;

For while I knew not what they to me said,

Before their souls were into mine convey'd,

Before that living vehicle of wind