O nobilissima viriditas
By Hildegard von Bingen
(1098 - 1179)
English version by Barbara Newman
Most noble
evergreen with your roots
in the sun:
you shine in the cloudless
sky of a sphere no earthly
eminence can grasp,
enfolded in the clasp
of ministries divine.
You blush like the dawn,
you burn like a flame
of the sun.
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