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I; though I call on genius; art; and practice;
  Cannot so tell that it could be imagined;
  Believe one can; and let him long to see it。

And if our fantasies too lowly are
  For altitude so great; it is no marvel;
  Since o'er the sun was never eye could go。

Such in this place was the fourth family
  Of the high Father; who forever sates it;
  Showing how he breathes forth and how begets。

And Beatrice began: 〃Give thanks; give thanks
  Unto the Sun of Angels; who to this
  Sensible one has raised thee by his grace!〃

Never was heart of mortal so disposed
  To worship; nor to give itself to God
  With all its gratitude was it so ready;

As at those words did I myself become;
  And all my love was so absorbed in Him;
  That in oblivion Beatrice was eclipsed。

Nor this displeased her; but she smiled at it
  So that the splendour of her laughing eyes
  My single mind on many things divided。

Lights many saw I; vivid and triumphant;
  Make us a centre and themselves a circle;
  More sweet in voice than luminous in aspect。

Thus girt about the daughter of Latona
  We sometimes see; when pregnant is the air;
  So that it holds the thread which makes her zone。

Within the court of Heaven; whence I return;
  Are many jewels found; so fair and precious
  They cannot be transported from the realm;

And of them was the singing of those lights。
  Who takes not wings that he may fly up thither;
  The tidings thence may from the dumb await!

As soon as singing thus those burning suns
  Had round about us whirled themselves three times;
  Like unto stars neighbouring the steadfast poles;

Ladies they seemed; not from the dance released;
  But who stop short; in silence listening
  Till they have gathered the new melody。

And within one I heard beginning: 〃When
  The radiance of grace; by which is kindled
  True love; and which thereafter grows by loving;

Within thee multiplied is so resplendent
  That it conducts thee upward by that stair;
  Where without reascending none descends;

Who should deny the wine out of his vial
  Unto thy thirst; in liberty were not
  Except as water which descends not seaward。

Fain wouldst thou know with what plants is enflowered
  This garland that encircles with delight
  The Lady fair who makes thee strong for heaven。

Of the lambs was I of the holy flock
  Which Dominic conducteth by a road
  Where well one fattens if he strayeth not。

He who is nearest to me on the right
  My brother and master was; and he Albertus
  Is of Cologne; I Thomas of Aquinum。

If thou of all the others wouldst be certain;
  Follow behind my speaking with thy sight
  Upward along the blessed garland turning。

That next effulgence issues from the smile
  Of Gratian; who assisted both the courts
  In such wise that it pleased in Paradise。

The other which near by adorns our choir
  That Peter was who; e'en as the poor widow;
  Offered his treasure unto Holy Church。

The fifth light; that among us is the fairest;
  Breathes forth from such a love; that all the world
  Below is greedy to learn tidings of it。

Within it is the lofty mind; where knowledge
  So deep was put; that; if the true be true;
  To see so much there never rose a second。

Thou seest next the lustre of that taper;
  Which in the flesh below looked most within
  The angelic nature and its ministry。

Within that other little light is smiling
  The advocate of the Christian centuries;
  Out of whose rhetoric Augustine was furnished。

Now if thou trainest thy mind's eye along
  From light to light pursuant of my praise;
  With thirst already of the eighth thou waitest。

By seeing every good therein exults
  The sainted soul; which the fallacious world
  Makes manifest to him who listeneth well;

The body whence 'twas hunted forth is lying
  Down in Cieldauro; and from martyrdom
  And banishment it came unto this peace。

See farther onward flame the burning breath
  Of Isidore; of Beda; and of Richard
  Who was in contemplation more than man。

This; whence to me returneth thy regard;
  The light is of a spirit unto whom
  In his grave meditations death seemed slow。

It is the light eternal of Sigier;
  Who; reading lectures in the Street of Straw;
  Did syllogize invidious verities。〃

Then; as a horologe that calleth us
  What time the Bride of God is rising up
  With matins to her Spouse that he may love her;

Wherein one part the other draws and urges;
  Ting! ting! resounding with so sweet a note;
  That swells with love the spirit well disposed;

Thus I beheld the glorious wheel move round;
  And render voice to voice; in modulation
  And sweetness that can not be comprehended;

Excepting there where joy is made eternal。



Paradiso: Canto XI


O Thou insensate care of mortal men;
  How inconclusive are the syllogisms
  That make thee beat thy wings in downward flight!

One after laws and one to aphorisms
  Was going; and one following the priesthood;
  And one to reign by force or sophistry;

And one in theft; and one in state affairs;
  One in the pleasures of the flesh involved
  Wearied himself; one gave himself to ease;

When I; from all these things emancipate;
  With Beatrice above there in the Heavens
  With such exceeding glory was received!

When each one had returned unto that point
  Within the circle where it was before;
  It stood as in a candlestick a candle;

And from within the effulgence which at first
  Had spoken unto me; I heard begin
  Smiling while it more luminous became:

〃Even as I am kindled in its ray;
  So; looking into the Eternal Light;
  The occasion of thy thoughts I apprehend。

Thou doubtest; and wouldst have me to resift
  In language so extended and so open
  My speech; that to thy sense it may be plain;

Where just before I said; 'where well one fattens;'
  And where I said; 'there never rose a second;'
  And here 'tis needful we distinguish well。

The Providence; which governeth the world
  With counsel; wherein all created vision
  Is vanquished ere it reach unto the bottom;

(So that towards her own Beloved might go
  The bride of Him who; uttering a loud cry;
  Espoused her with his consecrated blood;

Self…confident and unto Him more faithful;)
  Two Princes did ordain in her behoof;
  Which on this side and that might be her guide。

The one was all seraphical in ardour;
  The other by his wisdom upon earth
  A splendour was of light cherubical。

One will I speak of; for of both is spoken
  In praising one; whichever may be taken;
  Because unto one end their labours were。

Between Tupino and the stream that falls
  Down from the hill elect of blessed Ubald;
  A fertile slope of lofty mountain hangs;

From which Perugia feels the cold and heat
  Through Porta Sole; and behind it weep
  Gualdo and Nocera their grievous yoke。

From out that slope; there where it breaketh most
  Its steepness; rose upon the world a sun
  As this one does sometimes from out the Ganges;

Therefore let him who speaketh of that place;
  Say not Ascesi; for he would say little;
  But Orient; if he properly would speak。

He was not yet far distant from his rising
  Before he had begun to make the earth
  Some comfort from his mighty virtue feel。

For he in youth his father's wrath incurred
  For certain Dame; to whom; as unto death;
  The gate of pleasure no one doth unlock;

And was before his spiritual court
  'Et coram patre' unto her united;
  Then day by day more fervently he loved her。

She; reft of her first husband; scorned; obscure;
  One thousand and one hundred years and more;
  Waited without a suitor till he came。

Naught it availed to hear; that with Amyclas
  Found her unmoved at sounding of his voice
  He who struck terror into all the world;

Naught it availed being constant and undaunted;
  So that; when Mary still remained below;
  She mounted up with Christ upon the cross。

But that too darkly I may not proceed;
  Francis and Poverty for these two lovers
  Take thou henceforward in my speech diffuse。

Their concord and their joyous semblances;
  The love; the wonder; and the sweet regard;
  They made to be the cause of holy thoughts;

So much so that the venerable Bernard
  First bared his feet; and after so great peace
  Ran; and; in running; thought himself too slow。

O wealth unknown!  O veritable good!
  Giles bares his feet; and bares his feet Sylvester
  Behind the bridegroom; so doth please the bride!

Then goes his way that father and that master;
  He and his Lady and that family
  Which now was girding on the humble cord;

Nor cowardice of heart weighed down his brow
  At being son of Peter Bernardone;
  Nor for appearing marvellously scorned;

But regally his hard determination
  To Innocent he opened; and from him
  Received the primal seal upon his Order。

After the people mendicant increased
  Behind this man; whose admirable life
  Better in glory of the heavens were sung;

Incoronated with a second crown
  Was through Honorius by the Eternal Spirit
  The holy purpose of this Archimandrite。

And when he had; through thirst of martyrdom;
  In the p

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