The dove peered in through the lattices of the window
where, before its face,
a balm exuded from incandescent Maximin.
The heat of the sun burned dazzling into the gloom:
whence a jewel sprang forth in the building of the temple
of the purest loving heart.
He, the high tower,
constructed of Lebanon wood and cypress,
has been adorned with jacinth and diamonds,
a city excelling the crafts of other builders.
This swift hart sped
to the fountain of clearest water
flowing from the most powerful stone
which courses with delightful spices.
O perfume-makers, you who are in the sweetest
greenness of the gardens of the king,
ascending on high
when you have completed the holy sacrifice
with the rams.
This builder shines among you, the wall of the temple,
who longed for the wings of an eagle,
kissing his nurse Wisdom
in the glorious fecundity of the Church.
O Maximin, you are the mount and the valley,
and in both you seem a high building,
where the goat went with the elephant
and Wisdom was in rapture.
You are strong
and beautiful in rites
and in the shining of the altar,
mounting like the smoke of perfumes
to the column of praise.
Where you intercede for the people
who stretch towards the mirror of light
to whom there is praise on high.
(Hildegard von Bingen)
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