My Song of Today
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,
Today, dear Lord, today.
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 today!
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!
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 today!
Saint Teresa of Lisieux
June 1894
Translated by S L Emery
For more about St Theresa see:
For books about St. theresa see:
- Story of a Soul by St. Theresa of Lisieux
ISBN: 0940147114 - Thoughts of St. Theresa by St. Theresa of Lisieux
ISBN: 0895553449 - The Story of a Life by Guy Gaucher
ISBN: 0060630965