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About John of the CrossTimeline (1542 - 1591) |
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Full of Hope I Climbed the Day
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Full of hope I climbed the day
while hunting the game of love, and soared so high, high above that at last caught my prey. In order to seize the game -- the divine love in the sky -- I had to fly so high, high I floated unseen and became lost in that dangerous day; and so my flight fell short of height -- yet so high was my love that I at last caught my prey. Dazzled and stunned by light as I rose nearer the sun, my greatest conquest was won in the very black of night. Yet since love opened my way I leapt dark, blindly above and was so high, near my love, that at last I caught my prey. In this most exalted quest the higher I began to soar the lower I felt -- more sore and broken and depressed. I said: None can seize the prey! and groveled so low, so low that high, higher did I go, and at last I caught my prey. By strange reckoning I saw a thousand flights in one flight; for hope of heavenly light is achieved by hoping now. I hoped only for this way and was right to wait for love, and climbed so high, high above that at last I caught my prey.
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