Three Prayers
                                                                             
                while waiting for Thee, Mother

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                While I was waiting for Thee, O Light,
                To appear on the balcony,
                I prayed:
                Before the Lord descends in the first ray of Thy gaze,
                O Mother, chase away the clouds that cover my soul
                As Thou art lifting at dawn the mist-veil
                From the immaculate face of that deep Black Lake
                In my Tatty Mountains...

                And then, when the Lord will come,
                The luminous beam will pierce my bare being
                Unto its very depths and fill it with bliss.
                And the Lord will be pleased,
                And He will look around Him on His happy property
                At the bottom of my soul.

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