De Profundis + 

When I am dead unto myself, and let, + 

O Father, thee live on in me, + 

Contented to do nought but pay my debt, + 

And leave the house to thee, + 

Then shall I be thy ransomed⁠—from the cark + 

Of living, from the strain for breath, + 

From tossing in my coffin strait and dark, + 

At hourly strife with death! + 

Have mercy! in my coffin! and awake! + 

A buried temple of the Lord! + 

Grow, Temple, grow! Heart, from thy cerements break! + 

Stream out, O living Sword! + 

When I am with thee as thou art with me, + 

Life will be self-forgetting power; + 

Love, ever conscious, buoyant, clear, and free, + 

Will flame in darkest hour. + 

Where now I sit alone, unmoving, calm, + 

With windows open to thy wind, + 

Shall I not know thee in the radiant psalm + 

Soaring from heart and mind? + 

The body of this death will melt away, + 

And I shall know as I am known; + 

Know thee my father, every hour and day, + 

As thou know’st me thine own! + 