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And this is a poem
that's also old,

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from San Juan de Yepes,
who's better known

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as Saint John of the Cross.

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He's a Spanish mystic, and he
was a priest from old Castile.

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It's not actually-- this is
only, barely, a translation.

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In my translation, it, sort of,
became a poem to my wife, CD,

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and I don't think
Saint John of the Cross

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would quite recognize it.

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[LAUGHTER]

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But he might approve.

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"In the beginning, the word
was as being in happiness,

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infinitely, the word possessed.

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The same word being was
said to be beginning.

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Beginninglessly, it went on,
Its voice a fervid world.

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For the word, from
the outset, always

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was conceiving, concentrating
its consequence.

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For glory, in the word,
possessed the being.

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And all of beings going,
it gleaned in the word.

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Lover, in beloved in,
the other one went on.

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And that love which entwined
them was of the same substance.

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Two voices-- one
beloved, among two.

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And in them each, one happiness
rendered them one lover.

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And whose substance they gleamed
as to possess one being, each,

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alone, possessed it.

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Each of them in love,
a plenum of the word,

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whose being each one twined
around the other, beyond

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comprehension and ineffable not.

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Such fervid love
entwined the two together

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in one voice, both possessed,
a plenum of the world.

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The more that love was one,
the more of love there was."

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