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13th Century

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English version by
Mother Columba Hart

Original Language
Dutch

God must give us a renewed mind (from Vale Millies)

Themes

Lover and Beloved

Recommended Books

	Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies throughout the Ages, by Ursula King
	Hadewijch: The Complete Works (Classics of Western Spirituality) , by Mother Columba Hart
	Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete, by Bernard Mcginn
	Sacred Voices: Essential Women's Voices Through the Ages, Edited by Mary Ford-Grabowsky
	The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Aliki Barnstone

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God must give us a renewed mind
     For nobler and freer love,
To make us so new in our life
     That Love may bless us
And renew, with new taste,
     Those to whom she can give new fulness;
Love is the new and powerful recompense
     Of those whose life renews itself for Love alone.
-- Ay, vale, vale, millies --
     That renewing of new Love
-- Si dixero, non satis est --
     Which renewal will newly experience.

-- from Hadewijch: The Complete Works (Classics of Western Spirituality) , by Mother Columba Hart

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