O nobilissima viriditas / Responsory for Virgins
By Hildegard of Bingen(1098 - 1179)
English version by Barbara Newman

Most nobleevergreen with your rootsin the sun:you shine in the cloudlesssky of a sphere no earthlyeminence can grasp,enfolded in the claspof ministries divine.You blush like the dawn,you burn like a flameof the sun.