Adoration - Madame Guyon

I love my God, but with no love of mine,
     For I have none to give;
I love thee, Lord, but all that love is thine
     For by thy life I live.
I am as nothing, and rejoice to be
Emptied and lost and swallowed up in thee.

Thou, Lord, alone, art all thy children need
     And there is none beside;
From thee the streams of blessedness proceed;
     In thee the blest abide,
Fountain of life and all-abounding grace.
Our source, our centre and our dwelling-place!

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Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) (1648 – 1717) France
Source: World's great religious poetry by Caroline Miles Hill, Macmillan, 1923