Holy Jesus! God of Love! <br />Look with pity from above, <br />Shed the precious purple tide <br />From thine hands, thy feet, thy side, <br />Let thy streams of comfort roll, <br />Let them please and fill my soul. <br />Let me thus for ever be <br />Full of gladness, full of thee, <br />This for which my wishes pine <br />Is the cup of love divine, <br />Sweet affections flow from hence, <br />Sweet above the joys of sense; <br />Blessed Philtre! how we find <br />Its sacred worships, how the mind <br />Of all the world forgetful grown, <br />Can despise an earthly throne, <br />Raise its thoughts to Realms above, <br />Think of God, and sing of love. <br /> <br />Love Celestial, wond'rous heat <br />O beyond expression great! <br />What resistless charms were thine <br />In thy good thy best design! <br />When God was hated, Sin obey'd, <br />And man undone without thy aid. <br />From the seats of endless peace <br />They brought the son, the Lord of grace, <br />They taught him to receive a birth, <br />To cloath in flesh, to live on earth, <br />And after lifted him on high, <br />And taught him on the Cross to die. <br /> <br />Love Celestial ardent fire, <br />O extreme of sweet desire! <br />Spread thy brightly raging flame <br />Thro' and over all my frame; <br />Let it warm me let it burn, <br />Let my corps to ashes turn, <br />And might thy flame thus act with me <br />To set the soul from body free, <br />I next wou'd use thy wings and fly <br />To meet my Jesus in the sky.<br /><br />Thomas Parnell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-divine-love-by-meditating-on-the-wounds-of-christ/
