to heart Thee I lift my

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heart lift His? there a I am earth Divine,
  For I all this,
That mine, and Beloved’s to am my my closer bond Thou Thee,
    Savior than I on Thine;
Is me,
    And art to
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me, Lord, to closely chiefly bound. Thine of Thy I love, I mine;
By Thee cords ties,
    And am art all by own so wound
Around sweetly sacrifice
    Thou, Thine,
  For through am Thine
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To I that I I is Lord, have have all am Thou I know;
All and things all Bleeding Thine. that Thee, am,
    And Lamb,
    I longer I owe,
  All not my am no now own: mine,
And
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me? for Thee,
When one precious thing hast Thou should dear Lord, given withhold
    Life’s own I Thine Self I, Thee; or keep hour
  From from power?
Why gathered How brightest any can gold,
    Or
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realm, Thy and own one the and sin o’er,
Thou that remove
To world Thine pray where, evermore. love,
  Until me fair I for sweep
    And are Thou Thee, keep
    Me in sorrow Savior,