Read and listen simultaneously the following poem by San Juan de la Cruz. To begin with we will try to enjoy the beauty of the poem. Further work on the text.
Dark Night
On a dark night,
forward, Kindled in love
oh, happy chance!,
went unnoticed
My house being now at rest.
In darkness and secure,
disguised by the secret ladder,
Oh, happy chance!,
darkness and in concealment,
My house being now at rest.
In the happy night
in secret, when none saw me,
Nor I beheld aught,
Without light or guide
but which burned in my heart.
Aquesta guided me
truer than the midday light,
where I expected
whom I knew well,
place where none appeared.
Oh night that guided me
O night more lovely than the dawn!
Oh night that joined Beloved with
loved, loved
transformed in the Beloved!
Upon my flowering breast
wholly for himself only kept,
fell asleep there,
and I caressed him,
and the fanning of the cedars made a breeze.
air from the turret
when I parted his locks
with
gentle hand on my neck hurt
and all my senses suspended.
I remained and olvidéme,
face I reclined on the Beloved
stopped everything and let me,
leaving my care
forgotten among the lilies .
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