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Que tu es simple et claire,
Eau vivante,
Qui, du sein de la terre,
Jaillis en ces bassins et chantes!
Ô fontaine divine et pure,
Les plantes aspirent
Ta liquide clarté
La biche et la colombe en toi se désaltèrent.
Et tu descends par des pentes douces
De fleurs et de mousses,
Vers l'océan originel,
Toi qui passes et vas, sans cesse, et jamais lasse
De la terre à la mer et de la mer au ciel.
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Word count: 126
How simple and clear you are, living water, as out of the earth you well up in these pools and sing! Oh pure divine spring, the plants draw in your liquid brightness, in you the hind and the dove slake their thirst. And you flow down over gentle slopes of flowers and mosses towards the primeval ocean; you pass on unceasing and untiring from land to sea and from sea to sky.
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