Monday, May 11, 2009




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.

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