Luis de Leon: A New Light Doth Shine

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A New Light Doth Shine

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by Luis de Leon
(1527 - 1591) Timeline

English version by
Anonymous

Original Language
Spanish

At whose blest sound divine
My soul that in forgetfulness hath lain
With a new light doth shine
And unto memory plain
Of its first splendid origin attain.

Up through the fields of air
It wings, till in the highest sphere it dwells
And a new music there
It hears, music that wells
Undying, and all other kinds excels.

-- from Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs

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Recommended Books

	Luis de Leon: The Names of Christ: (Classics of Western Spirituality), by Luis de Leon / Translated by William Kluback
	Poesias: (Spanish Language), by Luis de Leon
	Poetry and Truth in the Spanish Works of Fray Luis de Leon, by David J. Hildner
	Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs
	Ten Centuries of Spanish Poetry: An Anthology in English Verse with Original Texts, from the Xith Century to the Generation of 1898, Edited by Eleanor L. Turnbull

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