Oh! for the wings of a dove!

Oh! for the wings of a dove!

To fly far away from my own soul,

Reach and be merged in the vast whole

heaven of infinite love!

Oh! that I were as the rain

To fall and be lost in the great sea

One with the waves till the drowned me

Might not be severed again.

Infinite arms of the air

Surrounding the stars and without strife

Blending our life with their large life

Lift me and carry me there!