A lovely solo or unison choir setting of a section of San Juan de la Cruz’s Romance 9.

Here is a poetic translation of the original Spanish:

Men sang their songs,
angels their melodies,
celebrating the union
that had come to be between them.

And the Mother stood in awe
at the exchange she beheld:
the tears of man in God,
and in man, the joy
things so strange,
so foreign to each other until now.

– San Juan de la Cruz/trans. MAB