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- ici1.11hLiber 7, Cap. V, recomp leading 14.5
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- 1. O my beautiful God! I swim in Thy heart like a trout in the mountain
- torrent.
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- 2. I leap from pool to pool in my joy; I am goodly with brown and gold and
- silver.
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- 3. Why, I am lovelier than the russet autumn woods at the first snowfall.
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- 4. And the crystal cave of my thought is lovelier than I.
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- 5. Only one fish-hook can draw me out; it is a woman kneeling by the bank
- of the stream. It is she that pours the bright dew over herself, and into the
- sand so that the river gushes forth.
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- 6. There is a bird on yonder myrtle; only the song of that bird can draw me
- out of the pool of Thy heart, O my God!
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- 7. Who is this Neapolitan boy that laughs in his happiness? His lover is
- the mighty crater of the Mountain of Fire. I saw his charred limbs borne down
- the slopes in a stealthy tongue of liquid stone.
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- 8. And Oh! the chirp of the cicada!
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- 9. I remember the days when I was cacique in Mexico.
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- 10. O my God, wast Thou then as now my beautiful lover?
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- 11. Was my boyhood then as now Thy toy, Thy joy?
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- 12. Verily, I remember those iron days.
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- 13. I remember how we drenched the bitter lakes with our torrent of gold; how
- we sank the treasurable image in the crater of Citlaltepetl.
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- 14. How the good flame lifted us even unto the lowlands, setting us down in
- the impenetrable forest.
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