Dark Night of the Soul

^10. Keeping this comparison, then, before our eyes, together with what has already been said upon the first line of the first stanza concerning this dark night and its terrible properties, it will be well to leave these sad experiences of the soul and to begin to speak of the fruit of its tears and their blessed properties, whereof the soul begins to sing from this second line:

Kindled in love¹⁷¹ with yearnings,

171. [Lit., ‘in loves’; and so throughout the exposition of this line.]