"The dart wherewith He wounded me
Was all embarbed round with love.
And thus my spirit came to be
One with its Maker, God above.
No love but this I need to prove:
My life to God surrender'd is
And my Beloved One is mine
And I at last am surely His."
St. Teresa of Avila
in Alan Jacobs, Ed.
_The Element Book of Mystical Verse_
Rockport, MA: Element, 1997, p. 116
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