Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Three Silences of Molinos lyrics

Three Silences there are: the first of speech,   The second of desire, the third of thought;   This is the lore a Spanish monk, distraught   With dreams and visions, was the first to teach. These Silences, commingling each with each,   Made up the perfect Silence, that he sought   And prayed for, and wherein at times he caught   Mysterious sounds from realms beyond our reach. O thou, whose daily life anticipates   The life to come, and in whose thought and word   The spiritual world preponderates. Hermit of Amesbury! thou too hast heard   Voices and melodies from beyond the gates,   And speakest only when thy soul is stirred!