Just penance, You have not desired.
My whole being You would take up with fire.
You chisel Your laws on my heart.
I am to be wholly Yours, and set apart.
Then all my wrongs You keep no record of.
Listen now courageously. Here is true love:
Precious entrance and like a flood,
the tearing Veil showers me in the Blood.
Raise up this Standard be fixed to the wind.
Unfurl in love and in friendship be given.
Keep yourself always a tremble
in the shining, shimmering face of God.
For terror would devour you fallen
in the terrible, terrified hands of God.
Steady now and know from where you come.
Steady now and know to where you go, Home.
Shrinking back You have not desired.
I have come to do Your will, Lord, bring the Fire.