O THOU undaunted daughter of desires! <br />By all thy dower of lights and fires; <br />By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; <br />By all thy lives and deaths of love; <br />By thy large draughts of intellectual day, <br />And by thy thirsts of love more large than they; <br />By all thy brim-fill'd bowls of fierce desire, <br />By thy last morning's draught of liquid fire; <br />By the full kingdom of that final kiss <br />That seized thy parting soul, and seal'd thee His; <br />By all the Heav'n thou hast in Him <br />(Fair sister of the seraphim!); <br />By all of Him we have in thee; <br />Leave nothing of myself in me. <br />Let me so read thy life, that I <br />Unto all life of mine may die!<br /><br />Richard Crashaw<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/upon-the-book-and-picture-of-the-seraphical-sain/
