3.
“Thou feddest Thine own people with angels' food.”
When veins which swell with sensuous low desire
Are emptied and made thin with abstinence,
Thy Blood Divine shall from the heart dispense
To all the frame Its own celestial fire,
Known but in thoughts which upward shall aspire,
Felt not nor seen; but throughout every sense
Send forth the savour of Omnipotence,
To cleanse the will diseased, and to attire
Decaying limbs with immortality;
Which, after they put off the sinful flesh,
With undecaying light shall bloom afresh;
Obedience henceforth lost in love divine,
The body all celestial discipline,
Fillèd with Resurrection and with Thee.
