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Oh Exceeding Beauty
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by Teresa of Avila
(1515 - 1582) Timeline
English version by Kieran Kavanaugh OCD and Otilio Rodriguez OCD
Original Language Spanish
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Oh Beauty exceeding All other beauties! Paining, but You wound not Free of pain You destroy The love of creatures.
Oh, knot that binds Two so different, Why do You become unbound For when held fast You strengthen Making injuries seem good.
Bind the one without being With being unending; Finish, without finishing, Love, without having to love, Magnify our nothingness.
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