From whom, long listening through ecstatic hours,

Men seek a spiritual mutilation

And guidance to the unperturbed serene,

Yours was the voice at which our grasping hands

Refrained from clutching at iniquity

Still warm with flame that licks the roof of hell,

But having will of us you are transfigured

With an attractive aureole whose glare

Is colder than a mist around the moon;

Wherefore in wisdom meditate on this