My soul, where is thy Love and Lord, seeing him thou canst not find? O cheer up heart, be comforted, for he is in thy mind.
To him relation thou may’st have as often as thou goes Into the closet1 “It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me” (Canticles 3:4, Douay-Rheims Bible). of thy heart thy griefs for to disclose.
