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English version by
Mother Columba Hart

Original Language
Dutch

What I sang so often of Love (from Defense of Love)

Themes

Lover and Beloved

Smile

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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What I sang so often of Love
Did not avail me much -- in fact, very little.
Yet the minds of old and young
Are enlightened by a song of Love.
But my good fortune holds
So small a share of love:
My song, my weeping seem without success.

I cry out, and I lament:
Love has the days --
And I, the nights and the madness of love!

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

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