Then Shall I Leap Into Love
I cannot dance, Lord, unless you lead me.
If you want me to leap with
abandon,
You must intone the song.
Then I shall leap into love,
From
love into knowledge,
From knowledge into enjoyment,
And from enjoyment
beyond all human sensations.
There I want to remain, yet want also to circle
higher still.
-Mechthild of Magdeburg
