Saturday, April 6, 2013
Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564

No mortal object did these eyes behold

When first they met the placid light of thine

And my Soul felt her destiny divine,

And hope of endless peace in me grew bold:

Heaven-born, the Soul a heavenward course must hold;

Beyond the visible world She soars to seek

(For what delights the sense is false and weak)

Ideal Form, the universal mould.

The wise man, I affirm, can find no rest

In that which perishes; nor will he lend

His heart to aught which doth on time depend.

’Tis sense, unbridled will, and not true love,

That kills the soul: love betters what is best,

Even here below, but more in heaven above.

... Michelangelo Buonarrotti (1475-1564), translated by William Wordsworth in The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, Philadelphia: Troutman & Hayes, 1851, p. 219 (see the book; see also 1 Cor. 13:12-13; Ps. 82:6-7; Mark 12:29-31; John 6:27; 10:34-36; 14:2-3; Gal. 5:14; Col. 3:14; 1 John 4:7-9; more at Destiny, Heart, Heaven, Hope, Light, Love, Peace, Soul, Time)

 
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