The Great Sea has set me
  in motion
  set me adrift
  and I move as a weed in
  the river.
  The arch of sky
  and mightiness of storms
  encompasses me,
  and I am left
  trembling with joy.
Fray Luis de León, the great humanist scholar of the Spanish Golden Age, one of the sages of Salamanca University, was condemned by the Inquisition for translating the Song of Solomon and spent four years in prison before being allowed to return to his lectern, where he began his first lecture with the phrase, "Decíamos ayer": "As we were saying yesterday..."
 
