“Ego Flos Campi Et Lilium Convallium” (“I Am The Flower Of The Field And The Lily Of The Valleys”). From: “The Song Of Solomon”.

“La Vierge au lys”

(The Virgin of the Lilies).

Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

Date: 1899.

Source/Photographer: PaintingHere.com

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“Ego Flos Campi”

(“I Am The Flower Of The Field”).

Composer: Jacobus Clemens Non Papa.

Sung By: The Tallis Scholars.

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 “Regina Angelorum”

(“The Queen of the Angels”).

Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

Date: 1900.

Collection: Petit Palais.

Source/Photographer: Art Renewal Center.

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Jacobus Clemens non Papa (circa 1510 – 1556) was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance based for most of his life in Flanders.[1] 

He was a prolific Composer in many of the current styles, and was especially famous for his polyphonic settings of the Psalms in Dutch, known as the Souterliedekens.[2]

“Ego Flos Campi”

(“I Am The Flower Of The Field”).

Composer: Jacobus Clemens Non Papa.

Sung By: Stile Antico.

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Ego flos campi et lilium convalium; 

sicut lilium inter spinas, 

sic amica mea inter filias: 

fons hortorum et puteus aquarum viventium; 

quae fluunt impetu de Libano. 

I am the Rose of Sharon, 

and the Lily of the Valleys. 

As the Lily among thorns, 

so is my love among the daughters. 

As the Apple Tree among the Trees of the Woods, 

so is my beloved among the sons. 

I sat down under his shadow with great delight: 

And his fruit was sweet to my taste. 

He brought me into the banqueting house, 

and his banner over me was love. 

Stay me with Flagons, comfort me with Apples: 

because I am sick of love. 

A Garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; 

a Spring shut up, a Fountain sealed. 

A Fountain of Gardens, a well of Living Waters, 

and Streams from Lebanon.

“Ego Flos Campi”

(“I Am The Flower Of The Field”).

Composer: Jacobus Clemens Non Papa.

Sung By:

The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge.

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The following Text is from Copilot, 

which may include inaccuracies.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux’s allegorical reading of 

“Ego flos campi, et lilium convallium” is one of the 

most beautiful pieces of Mediæval exegesis. 

For Saint Bernard, the voice in Song of Songs 2:1 

is Christ declaring the Mystery of His Incarnation.

“Flos Campi — the Flower of the Field”.

Christ’s humanity, freely given, unforced, growing in the 

open World rather than in the enclosed garden of the Old Law.

“Lilium convallium — the Lily of the Valleys”. Christ’s purity and humility, flourishing not on heights, but in low places — the Valleys of human weakness.

Saint Bernard insists that Christ chooses the Field 

and the Valley to show that Salvation comes through 

humility, not splendour.