kemuliaan Tuhan

Dengan rohku, kumenanggapi-Mu,

Ku melihat Engkau dalam kemuliaan-Mu,

Hujung jubah-Mu, memenuhi ruang mazbah-Mu,

kurasa aman dalam naungan-Mu.

I am abashed, solitary, helpless, surrounded by a beauty that can never belong to me. But this sadness generates within me an unspeakable reverence for the holiness of created things, for they are pure and perfect and they belong to God and they are mirrors of His beauty. He is mirrored in all things like sunlight in a clean water : but if I try to drink the light that is in the water I only shatter the reflection