Antiphon for the Holy Spirit

By Hildegard of Bingen
The Spirit of God
is a life that bestows life,
root of world-tree
and wind in its boughs.

Scrubbing out sin,
she rubs oil into wounds.

She is glistening life
alluring all praise,
all-awakening,
all-resurrecting.
 

Hildegard of Bingen , "Antophon for the Holy Spirit" 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)