By St John of the Cross.
Stanzas 8-10
How do you endure O life, not living where you live, and being brought near death by the arrows you receive from that which you conceive of your Beloved?
Why, since you wounded this heart, don't you heal it? And why, since you stole it from me, do you leave it so, and fail to carry off what you have stolen?
Extinguish these miseries, since no one else can stamp them out; and may my eyes behold you, because you are their light, and I would open them to you alone.
Stanzas 8-10
How do you endure O life, not living where you live, and being brought near death by the arrows you receive from that which you conceive of your Beloved?
Why, since you wounded this heart, don't you heal it? And why, since you stole it from me, do you leave it so, and fail to carry off what you have stolen?
Extinguish these miseries, since no one else can stamp them out; and may my eyes behold you, because you are their light, and I would open them to you alone.
