“Creator
Spirit, by whose aid
The
World's Foundations first were laid,
Come,
visit ev'ry pious Mind;
Come,
pour thy Joys on Human Kind;
From
Sin, and Sorrow set us free;
And
make thy Temples worthy Thee.”—English poet John Dryden (1631-1700), Veni, Creator Spiritus (“Come, Creator
Spirit”) (1693), in Dryden (The Laurel Poetry Series), general editor Richard
Wilbur (1962)
(The
image accompanying this post is The
Creation of the Animals, a painting by the Italian Renaissance master
Tintoretto in 1550. It is displayed in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice.)
