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 Aquellos que resuscitan,
 * Mientras los cielos penetran,
 * De Hilariones y Mucharios
 * La oracion y penitencia;

Los que de la perfeccion
 * Son perfectissima idea,
 * Angeles en las acciones
 * HomrbesHombres [sic] solo en la apariencia.

Thus Doña Bernarda Ferreira describes them in her Soledades de Buçaco, a poem, which for the perception of the beauties of nature, and the natural feeling that it displays, entitles the authoress to a higher rank among the poets of Spain than she would have deserved by her greater work, the Hespaña Libertada. In spite of the conceits, which according to the fashion of the age, were probably deemed its finest parts, and in spite of its Manichæan notions of piety, it is a poem to be read with pleasure, and which entitles its authoress to be remembered with respect. One passage I shall quote