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  • on The Soul's Over-Ardent Love by Jacopone da Todi, on July 24, 2006

    Very good expression of love for God.

    The first 11 lines appear in a book I have, which then goes on for several pages with different words. These "extra" verses are even more powerful, for me.
    Here is an example, it is from "The Portable Medieval Reader," The Viking Press, New York, copyright 1949.

    "Before I knew its power, I asked in prayer
    For love of Christ, believing it was sweet:
    I thought to breath a clam and tranquil air,
    On peaceful heights, where tempests never beat.
    Torment I find, instead of sweetness there!
    My heart is riven by the dreadful heat:
    Of these strange things to treat
    all words are vain:
    By bliss I am slain,
    And yet I live and move."

    This is verse 2, there are 7 more but its past my bedtime!

    Thanks for your web site.

    Peter Plowright