The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II

part in the Fasts and Vigils and austerities of the Ferrars and the

saintly, if ascetic, 'Little Gidding' group.[18] Going back on the 'Hymn,' such lines as these show how even then the Poet had drunk-in the very passion of Teresa: _e.g._

'Loue toucht her heart, and, lo, it beates High, and burnes with such braue heates, Such thirsts to dy, as dares dr...