John of the Cross: Flame of Living Love

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Last updated on Aug. 25, 2000[Versión original] Saint John of the

Cross(1549-1591) Flame of Living Love O flame of living love, That dost

eternallyPierce through my soul with so consuming heat,Since there's no help

above,Make thou an end of me,And break the bond of this encounter sweet. O burn

that burns to heal!O more than pleasant wound!And O soft hand, O touch most

delicate,That dost new life reveal,That dost in grace abound,And, slaying, dost

from death to life translate! O lamps of fire that shinedWith so intense a

lightThat those deep caverns where the senses live,Which were obscure and

blind,Now with strange glories bright,Both heat and light to His beloved give!

With how benign intentRememberest thou my breast,Where thou alone abidest

secretly;And in thy sweet ascent,With glory and good possessed,How delicately

thou teachest love to me! —Arthur Symons Hispanic

Anthology: Poems Translated from the Spanish by English and North American

Poets, collected and arranged by Thomas Walsh. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York,

1920.

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