One with it's Maker...

"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."



Saint Teresa of Avila
in Alan Jacobs, Ed.
_The Element Book of Mystical Verse_
Rockport, MA: Element, 1997, p. 116