what we all cravw is within- I soften to read same in time from time past

By Dame Catherine Gascoigne
(1600 - 1676)

English version by Stanbrook Abbey

 

One thing alone I crave
namely
All in everything

This One 
I seek
the only One
do I desire

Rooted in One
is all
from the One
flows all

This is the very One
I seek
will have
only then
be filled

Unless I drink 
this Spring
I thirst
for nowhere else sup I to be fulfilled

What or Who this One is
I may not say
can never feel
Nothing
more or less
is there to say

For the One is not simply in all
the One Being is over all

YOU are my GOD
holding me
within my very SELF‎