Quam pulchri sunt

Tomás Luis de Victoria

Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui,
filia principis!
collum tuum sicut turris eburnea,
oculi tui divini,
et comae capitis tui
sicut purpurea regis.
Quam pulchra es,
et quam decora, carissima!
Alleluia.  
How beautiful are your footsteps,
O prince's daughter!
Your neck, like a tower of ivory;
Your divine eyes;
And the hair of your head,
like a king's purple.
How beautiful you are,
and how gracious, dearest one!
Alleluia.

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Tomás Luis de Victoria (c.1540-1611)

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