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THE SPIRITUAL CANTICLE
Songs between the soul and the bridegroom (fragment)

Bride

Our bed is in flower,
bound round with linking dens of lions,
hung with purple,
al adobado vino Following your footprints
built up in peace,
and crowned with a thousand shields of gold.

maidens run along the way;
the touch of a spark,
the spiced wine,
scents from the balsam divine.
In the inner wine cellar
I drank of my Beloved, and, when I left
through all this valley
I no longer knew anything,
and lost the herd that I was following

"La casi ausencia de verbos manifiesta quietud, paz, sosiego, las mismas sensaciones que se
experimentan tras la bebida de un vino aromatizado (adobado vino). En la bodega se detiene el
tiempo y aparece el espacio, plácido (de paz edificado). Los sentidos desaparecen, sumidos en
la embriaguez, y sólo queda el amor".
Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra.
Filólogo y Presidente de la Junta de Extremadura
Philologist and President of the Council of Extremadura

"The fact that there are scarcely any verbs reveals stillness, peacefulness, quietness, the same
sensations as one feels after drinking spiced wine (adobado vino). In the wine cellar time pauses
and placid space appears (de paz edificado). Senses disappear, plunged into drunkenness, and
only love is left".

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