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there is a rapture that my soul desires there is a rapture that my soul desires what the soul desires augusta theodosia drane 1823 1893 there thou wilt show me what my soul desired there thou wilt give at once o my life what thou gavest me the other day st john of the cross spiritual canticle stanza xxxviii there is a rapture that my soul desires there is a something that i cannot name i know not after what my soul aspires nor guess from whence the restless longing came but ever from my childhood have i felt it in all things beautiful and all things gay and ever has its gentle unseen presence fallen like a shadow cloud across my way it is the melody of all sweet music in all fair forms it is the hidden grace in all i love a something that escapes me flies my pursuit and ever veils its face i see it in the woodland s summer beauty i hear it in the breathing of the air i stretch my hands to feel for it and grasp it but ah too well i know it is not there in sunset hours when all the earth is golden and rosy clouds are hastening to the west i catch a waving gleam and then tis vanished and the old longing once more fills my breast it is not pain although the fire consumes me bound up with memories of my happiest years it steals into my deepest joys o mystery it mingles too with all my saddest tears once only once there rose the heavy curtain the clouds rolled back and for too brief a space i drank in joy as from a living fountain and seemed to gaze upon it face to face but of that day and hour who shall venture with lips untouched by seraph s fire to tell i saw thee o my life i heard i touch thee then o er my soul once more the darkness fell the darkness fell and all the glory vanished i strove to call it back but all in vain o rapture to have seen it for a moment o anguish that it never came again that lightning flash of joy that seemed eternal was it indeed but wandering fancy s dream ah surely no that day the heavens opened and on my soul there fell a golden gleam o thou my life give me what then thou gavest no angel vision do i ask to see i seek no ecstasy of mystic rapture naught naught my lord my life but only thee that golden gleam hath purged my sight revealing in the fair ray reflected from above thyself beyond all sight beyond all feeling the hidden beauty and the hidden love as the hart panteth for the water brooks and seeks the shades whence cooling fountains burst even so for thee o lord my spirit fainteth thyself alone hath power to quench its thirst give me what then thou gavest for i seek it no longer in thy creatures as of old i strive no more to grasp the empty shadow the secret of my life is found and told in the spring of 1973 the talented singer and musician donovan put this profound and lovely poem to one of the most haunting melodies i have ever heard i regret that his inspiring song seems to live on only within my own heart like so many loved ones too fine for this world who have perished what the soul desires by augusta theodosia drane 1823 1893 from the oxford book of english mystical verse chosen by d h s nicholson and a h e lee 1917 1969 questions or comments about articles on this site email v susan ferguson click here c opyright v susan ferguson all rights reserved technical questions or comments about the site email the webmaster click h ere