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Therese of Lisieux, Poems
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OF LOVE TO DIE. February 25, 1895
JESUS, MY WELL BELOVED, REMEMBER THOU!
THE ETERNAL CANTICLE. SUNG IN BANISHMENT.
MY WISHES BEFORE THE TABERNACLE.
THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN TO HER LITTLE MARY.
TO MY LITTLE BROTHERS IN HEAVEN, THE HOLY INNOCENTS.
TO THE VENERABLE THEOPHANE VENARD, MARTYRED.
THE STORY OF A SHEPHERDESS WHO BECAME A QUEEN.
PRAYER OF THE CHILD OF A SAINT TO HER GOOD FATHER, CALLED HOME TO GOD
FIFTH PART. SPIRITUAL RECREATIONS
THE FLIGHT OF THE HOLY FAMILY INTO EGYPT.
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Oh! how I love Thee, Jesus! my soul aspires to Thee — And yet for one day only my simple prayer I pray! Come reign within my heart, smile tenderly on me, To-day, dear Lord, to-day. 2.
But if I dare take thought of what the morrow brings — That fills my fickle heart with dreary, dull dismay; I crave, indeed, my God, trials and sufferings, But only for to-day! 3.
O sweetest Star of heaven! O Virgin, spotless, blest, Shining with Jesus’ light, guiding to Him my way! O Mother! ‘neath thy veil let my tired spirit rest, For this brief passing day! 4. Soon shall I fly afar among the holy choirs, Then shall be mine the joy that never knows decay; And then my lips shall sing, to heaven’s angelic lyres, The eternal, glad To-day! June, 1894.
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