My heart shall only this desire – Scholarly Edition

My heart shall onlie this desire¹This poem is a fragment from “Of Suffering and Bearing the Crosse,” lines 81-104.
          that thow my Lorde dispose
Even as thow pleasest in all things
          till thes my eyes thow close
By death, which I so much desire
          because it will procure
Me to enioie my God and all
          where I shall be secure,
That none from me can take my Lorde
          but for eternitie
I shall enioie my onlie good
          and to him euer be
Vnited by a knotte of Loue
          which nothing shall vntie
But will remaine as permanent
          as his Diuinitie.
O Happie howre when will thow comme
          and sette my spirit free,
That I maie loue and praise my God
          for perpetuitie
Contemplating his glorious face
          with all that him adore
Singing with them his sweetest praise
          for euer and euer more. Amen.