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VERSES WRITTEN UPON AN ECSTASY OF HIGH CONTEMPLATION by JOHN OF THE CROSS

First Line: I ENTER'D IN - I KNEW NOT WHERE
Last Line: WHEREBY MAN UNDERSTANDS NO MORE %YET FAR TRANSCENDS ALL HUMAN LORE
Subject(s): HEAVEN; LOVE; PEACE;

Poem Sources:

TEN CENTURIES OF SPANISH POETRY; AN ANTHOLOGY IN ENGLISH VERSE WITH ORIGINAL TEXTS; FROM THE XITH CENTURY TO THE GENERATION OF 1898.
  TURNBULL, ELEANOR L. (ED.)
  (1955)
 



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