experience
them
!
You,
I
say,
who
do
not
know
these
flights
of
love,
because
you
are
satisfied
with
the
abiding
presence
of
your
Beloved;
or,
if
He
hide
Himself,
it
is
for
so
short
a
time
that
you
cannot
judge
of
the
joy
of
His
presence
by
the
pain
of
a
long
absence
j
you
have
never
experienced
your
weakness,
and
your
need
of
His
help
;
but
those
who
are
thus
forsaken
learn
to
lean
no
longer
on
themselves,
but
only
on
the
Beloved.
His
rigours
have
rendered
His
gentleness
the
more
needful
for
them.
These
persons
often
commit
faults
through
sheer
weakness,
and
because
they
are
deprived
of
all
sen-sible
support
;
and
these
faults
so
fill
them
with
shame,
that,
if
they
could,
they
would
hide
them-selves
fi*om
their
Beloved.
Alas
!
in
the
terrible
confusion
into
which
they
are
thrown.
He
gives
them
a
glimpse
of
Himself.
He
touches
them
with
His
sceptre,
like
another
Ahasuerus
(Esther
v.
2),
that
they
may
not
die;
but
His
tender
caresses
only
serve
to
increase
their
confusion
at
the
thought
of
having
displeased
Him.
At
other
times
He
makes
them
sensible,
by
His
severity,
how
much
their
un-
