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Page 40 - We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free-cost ; the cucumbers come into our mind, and the melons, and the leeks, and ! the onions, and the garlic.
Page 35 - door, which no man can shut ; because thou hast a little strength, and hast kept My word, and hast not denied My name.
Page 111 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man what things God hath prepared for them that love Him,
Page 125 - shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.
Page 89 - But the greatest affliction of the sorrowful soul in this state is the thought that God has abandoned it, of which it has no doubt ; that He has cast it away into darkness as an abominable thing. The thought that He has abandoned it is a grievous and pitiable affliction.
Page 89 - chastised and abandoned in His wrath and heavy displeasure. All this and even more the soul feels now, for a fearful apprehension has come upon it that thus it will be with it for ever. It has also the same sense of abandonment with respect to all creatures, and that it is an object of
Page 2 - in. In that happy night, In secret, seen of none. Seeing nought myself, Without other light or guide Save that which in my heart was burning. IV. That light guided me More surely than the noonday sun To the place where He was waiting for me, Whom I knew well. And where none
Page 1 - STANZAS, i. In a dark night, With anxious love inflamed, O, happy lot ! Forth unobserved I went, My house being now at rest. ii. In darkness and in safety, By the secret ladder, disguised, O, happy lot ! In darkness and concealment, My house being now at rest,
Page 89 - contemplation, the shadow of death and the pains and torments of hell are most acutely felt, that is, the sense of being without God, being chastised and abandoned in His wrath and heavy displeasure. All this and even more the soul feels now, for a fearful apprehension has come upon it that thus it will be with it
Page 2 - IV. That light guided me More surely than the noonday sun To the place where He was waiting for me, Whom I knew well. And where none appeared. O, guiding night ; O, night more lovely than the dawn ; O, night that hast united The lover with His beloved. And changed her into her love.