Tell me, dearest, whom my soul loves
Where are you around noon?
Our rest place is green … filled with flowers.
Expect a great harvest,
truly the rain and the light are sweet, and
pleasant for the eyes to behold.
O sun!
If we live many years and are glad …
remember there is darkness too…
All, dear, is just vanity!
Let your heart cheer,
and walk in the ways-of your heart,
know this in the clear way of sight of the eye:
because you are wise, and thus give the people
knowledge, yes, you give good advice, my love!
The poet sought out acceptable words:
and has written upright—words of truth
to remove sadness from the heart!
Life has meaning when we live
in the right relation with God, therefore
remove regrets and sorrow from your mind,
and put away evil from the flesh:
for the sensual years are vanity.
Tell me, whom my soul loves …
you are the rose of eternity,
and the lily of stretched out wide valleys:
as flowers among thorns.
Who is this that comes out
of the wilderness
like a pillar of smoke?
The pillar of trust like a wind of the north
changing into the breeze of the south—
blow on me!
Set me as a seal upon your heart,
love is as strong as death:
for jealousy is cruel as the grave,
the coals of fire,
which has a most vehement flame:
Tears cannot cool the heat of sensual love,
neither can they drown in cold floods:
if a man would give his house for love,
it would be utterly contained.
God does not see evil,
the horror
comes from personalizing evil,
the fear of God is just fear~~~.
Good vision brought me to a door,
when I looked through a hole in the wall,
there …
I heard a voice, “Go behind the wall!“
and I saw everything;
creeping things,
and wild beasts,
portrayed on the wall round about!
The living creatures ran
and returned as the appearance
of a flash of lightning
that they were lifted up.
And there was a voice from the firmament!
I was assured of God’s love,
my heart rested!
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