my heart,for perhaps you are the only one sufficiently acquaintedwith the Latin tongue who could have translated this highlyspiritual poetry.
You have givenample evidence in this work that you are possessedof the true poeticspirit, which is Heaven's gift,and which has been more abundantlybestowed upon you than upon others
; for no other poet has known how to reproduce this royal poet as you have done, and you never could have done it,even with your ability, had you not been impregnated with the spiritof the whole.
But such emotions of the heart do not spring from nature, nor from the ordinarypoeticgift, but are certainly a giftof the Spiritand an impulse from heaven.
I wish you not only much happiness,but praisemy Spiritqualified you for this divine work, which will be specially useful to the young, who may reap not only culture and poetry from this poem, but also spiritualknowledge, through the assistance of a faithful teacher.
I confess to being much more touched and swayed by such poetic effusions than by the spoken word, even were it out of the mouth of a Demosthenes or a Cicero.
So if I experiencethis with minor poems, how much more must the contents of the Psalms move me, a book which I have studied from my youth, and which, thank
God, has never failed to delight and benefit me.
For although I would never despise the giftsof others,yet I venture to assert in holy joy that I would not, for the thrones and kingdoms of the world, exchange the delightI have experienced in the I have none of the foolish humilitywhich would deny God's giftsto me.
In myself I have truly enough to make me humble, but Psalter, and now much more in your Coban one, but all to the praiseand gloryof
God to all eternity. May you abide in Him for ever.