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In a Deep, Unbounded Darkness

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Translator: Francis P. Jones

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First Line: In a deep, unbounded darkness
Title: In a Deep, Unbounded Darkness
Adapter: Mary Louise Bringle (2012)
Translator: Francis P. Jones (1953)
Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7
Source: Anonymous Chinese poem
Copyright: © 2012 GIA Publications, Inc.
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DIVINUM MYSTERIUM

DIVINUM MYSTERIUM is a plainsong, or chant, associated with the “Divinum mysterium” text in manuscripts dating from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. The tune was published in triple meter in Theodoricis Petri's Piae Cantiones (1582). Some hymnals retain the dance-like triple meter, while othe…

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