| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | Appendix | II. Unacknowledged and Uncollected Translations.
The Assumption of the Virgin |
| | By Luis Ponce de Leon
LADY! thine upward flight | |
| The opening heavens receive with joyful song: | |
| Blest, who thy garments bright | |
| May seize, amid the throng, | |
| And to the sacred mount float peacefully along. | 5 |
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| Bright angels are around thee, | |
| They that have served thee from thy birth are there: | |
| Their hands with stars have crowned thee; | |
| Thou,—peerless Queen of air, | |
| As sandals to thy feet the silver moon dost wear. | 10 |
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| Celestial dove! so meek | |
| And mild and fair!—oh, let thy peaceful eye | |
| This thorny valley seek, | |
| Where such sweet blossoms lie, | |
| But where the sons of Eve in pain and sorrow sigh. | 15 |
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| For if the imprisoned soul | |
| Could catch the brightness of that heavenly way, | |
| ’T would own its sweet control | |
| And gently pass away, | |
| Drawn by its magnet power to an eternal day. | 20 | | | |
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