To celebrate the feast of Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church, lines from Richard Wilbur's "Teresa:"
The proof came soon and plain:
Visions were true which quickened her to run
God's barefoot errands in the rocks of Spain
Beneath its beating sun,
And lock the O of ecstasy within
The tempered consonants of discipline.
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