On a Recording of Josquin Desprez's "Ave Maria"
Ave maria
I have been listening to this song for some time and yet it is not tiring
gratia plena,
nor is it precisely energizing say instead that it is . . .
Dominus tecum,
e t e r n a l
benedicta tu in mulieribus,
its harmonies perfect
et benedictus fructus ventris tui Iesus.
it forms its own logic
Sancta Maria mater Dei,
in which a unimaginable sphere unfolds its splendor through space and time
ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae.
all other music is lost for one instant of purity.
Amen.