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Sections
Joyeux
Lumineux
Douloureux
Glorieux

Glorieux
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from the thronewomb
here near the sepulchre
I am, close (again)
as I can, as I was when He
was enwombed; my cheek
against the cold stone’s pressed (as
once He nursed and
nuzzled my warm breast) but I’m
oppressed
by the silence within
wherein His Body hath so lately lain
or thus they say;
His birth-
day date, I recall, three days hence
oh, where is the Life now
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: above, yet
or below
before here, again, at last
when He’ll Glorious appear in
His Trinitarian regalia
to give to us the Word, once more
at the Re-Annunciation
of His forever birthplace
: in the Temple restored for
the Holy Spirit . . . ‘tis
any and
all of our human hearts.
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their nightLight
is He. Now
that He’s been elevated
: like Father
like Son.
And I, ponder
in My Heart of hearts
(where
Simeon hath performed his
sleight-of-hand sword
tricks) restored
by My Son
to His Right
-full Domain of Being, from thence
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the quick and the dead
shall all
see His return
in the samewise cloud
to the place I have prepared for Him
in the throneroom of My Heart
where He sits, reigns forevermore,
and is,
that also they may be.
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after He'd gone
His Presence, still
It hath comforteth me
none the less
Fear not, for (at
the Feast of Pentecost)
ingathered
the Tongues of heart fire Descend
licking at
the beholders, hungering
for a taste of Heaven in
His FirstFruits
the Wafer and the Wine
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longing to dine
at the Marriage Supper
of the Lamb, served
at last, slaked by the Blood
eager for the Flesh, yet
quenched only
by the Spirit
sprinkled from the hyssop, dipped
in the Crystal Fountain,
Whose
deep draughts from
unloose their tongues
as if drunk on New Wine.
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with what
Rapture
I and My Son
were One, in Heaven
again
I yielded (just like
Falling Asleep) to
the letting
and be
-came body and soul
once more (leaving, no doubt,
Thomas longing
to touch too My Son’s
Mother . . . ) as if
on the wings of
eagles I mounted from whence
I’d run the Good Race
and not been weary, trans
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-ported and trans
-figured
even, . . . -literated (in
the manner and the style
and [full] grace of
Enoch & Elijah) thus
not so much merely translated
in Our meeting in the air,
in the
twinkling of an Aye: Radiant
for
all is calm, all is bright
in the starry, starry night
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in the
Empyrean
twelve stars coronal surround
the Skypace
and I
am filled again
with the embracing Presence
above, below, within
my soul proclaims
to the world, what
: hath not been conformed
but am transformed
by my renewed mind and
hath proven
what is that good
perfect, acceptable, let-
able to
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not His will be done
but His.
now no mere lowly
hand-made of the Lord,
Who is with me ‘tis
no secret now my
sacred coronary nature
doth magnify
The Enthroned: Magnitudinous
reigneth,
blessed in golden spun raiment
embroidered immaculate
: in fine linen, clean, and White
ever Pure
Eternal.
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