| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 146. Hymn, after Gabriele Rossetti |
| By Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
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| MY Lord, my Love! in pleasant pain | |
| How often have I said, | |
| ‘Blessèd that John who on Thy breast | |
| Laid down his head.’ | |
| It was that contact all divine | 5 |
| Transformed him from above, | |
| And made him amongst men the man | |
| To show forth holy love. | |
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| Yet shall I envy blessèd John? | |
| Nay not so verily, | 10 |
| Now that Thou, Lord, both Man and God, | |
| Dost dwell in me: | |
| Upbuilding with Thy Manhood’s might | |
| My frail humanity; | |
| Yea, Thy Divinehood pouring forth, | 15 |
| In fullness filling me. | |
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| Me, Lord, Thy temple consecrate, | |
| Even me to Thee alone; | |
| Lord, reign upon my willing heart | |
| Which is Thy throne: | 20 |
| To Thee the Seraphim fall down | |
| Adoring round Thy house; | |
| For which of them hath tasted Thee | |
| My Manna and my Spouse? | |
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| Now that Thy life lives in my soul | 25 |
| And sways and warms it through, | |
| I scarce seem lesser than the world, | |
| Thy temple too. | |
| O God, who dwellest in my heart, | |
| My God who fillest me, | 30 |
| The broad immensity itself | |
| Hath not encompassed Thee. | |
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