Antiphon for Divine Wisdom
Sophia!
you of the whirling wings,
circling encompassing
energy of God:
you quicken the world in your clasp.
One wing soars in heaven
one wing sweeps the earth
and the third flies all around us.
Praise to Sophia!
Let all the earth praise her!
Copyright Credit: Hildegard of Bingen , "Antiphon for the Angels" from Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the “Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum,” Second Edition, translated by Barbara Newman. Copyright © 1988, 1998 by Cornell University. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press.
Source: Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the “Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum” (Cornell University Press, 1988)