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  In little while; and the lost countenance
  As love desires it so in her did colour。

When in this wise she had her speech unloosed;
  She 'gan to sing so; that with difficulty
  Could I have turned my thoughts away from her。

〃I am;〃 she sang; 〃I am the Siren sweet
  Who mariners amid the main unman;
  So full am I of pleasantness to hear。

I drew Ulysses from his wandering way
  Unto my song; and he who dwells with me
  Seldom departs so wholly I content him。〃

Her mouth was not yet closed again; before
  Appeared a Lady saintly and alert
  Close at my side to put her to confusion。

〃Virgilius; O Virgilius! who is this?〃
  Sternly she said; and he was drawing near
  With eyes still fixed upon that modest one。

She seized the other and in front laid open;
  Rending her garments; and her belly showed me;
  This waked me with the stench that issued from it。

I turned mine eyes; and good Virgilius said:
  〃At least thrice have I called thee; rise and come;
  Find we the opening by which thou mayst enter。〃

I rose; and full already of high day
  Were all the circles of the Sacred Mountain;
  And with the new sun at our back we went。

Following behind him; I my forehead bore
  Like unto one who has it laden with thought;
  Who makes himself the half arch of a bridge;

When I heard say; 〃Come; here the passage is;〃
  Spoken in a manner gentle and benign;
  Such as we hear not in this mortal region。

With open wings; which of a swan appeared;
  Upward he turned us who thus spake to us;
  Between the two walls of the solid granite。

He moved his pinions afterwards and fanned us;
  Affirming those 'qui lugent' to be blessed;
  For they shall have their souls with comfort filled。

〃What aileth thee; that aye to earth thou gazest?〃
  To me my Guide began to say; we both
  Somewhat beyond the Angel having mounted。

And I: 〃With such misgiving makes me go
  A vision new; which bends me to itself;
  So that I cannot from the thought withdraw me。〃

〃Didst thou behold;〃 he said; 〃that old enchantress;
  Who sole above us henceforth is lamented?
  Didst thou behold how man is freed from her?

Suffice it thee; and smite earth with thy heels;
  Thine eyes lift upward to the lure; that whirls
  The Eternal King with revolutions vast。〃

Even as the hawk; that first his feet surveys;
  Then turns him to the call and stretches forward;
  Through the desire of food that draws him thither;

Such I became; and such; as far as cleaves
  The rock to give a way to him who mounts;
  Went on to where the circling doth begin。

On the fifth circle when I had come forth;
  People I saw upon it who were weeping;
  Stretched prone upon the ground; all downward turned。

〃Adhaesit pavimento anima mea;〃
  I heard them say with sighings so profound;
  That hardly could the words be understood。

〃O ye elect of God; whose sufferings
  Justice and Hope both render less severe;
  Direct ye us towards the high ascents。〃

〃If ye are come secure from this prostration;
  And wish to find the way most speedily;
  Let your right hands be evermore outside。〃

Thus did the Poet ask; and thus was answered
  By them somewhat in front of us; whence I
  In what was spoken divined the rest concealed;

And unto my Lord's eyes mine eyes I turned;
  Whence he assented with a cheerful sign
  To what the sight of my desire implored。

When of myself I could dispose at will;
  Above that creature did I draw myself;
  Whose words before had caused me to take note;

Saying: 〃O Spirit; in whom weeping ripens
  That without which to God we cannot turn;
  Suspend awhile for me thy greater care。

Who wast thou; and why are your backs turned upwards;
  Tell me; and if thou wouldst that I procure thee
  Anything there whence living I departed。〃

And he to me: 〃Wherefore our backs the heaven
  Turns to itself; know shalt thou; but beforehand
  'Scias quod ego fui successor Petri。'

Between Siestri and Chiaveri descends
  A river beautiful; and of its name
  The title of my blood its summit makes。

A month and little more essayed I how
  Weighs the great cloak on him from mire who keeps it;
  For all the other burdens seem a feather。

Tardy; ah woe is me! was my conversion;
  But when the Roman Shepherd I was made;
  Then I discovered life to be a lie。

I saw that there the heart was not at rest;
  Nor farther in that life could one ascend;
  Whereby the love of this was kindled in me。

Until that time a wretched soul and parted
  From God was I; and wholly avaricious;
  Now; as thou seest; I here am punished for it。

What avarice does is here made manifest
  In the purgation of these souls converted;
  And no more bitter pain the Mountain has。

Even as our eye did not uplift itself
  Aloft; being fastened upon earthly things;
  So justice here has merged it in the earth。

As avarice had extinguished our affection
  For every good; whereby was action lost;
  So justice here doth hold us in restraint;

Bound and imprisoned by the feet and hands;
  And so long as it pleases the just Lord
  Shall we remain immovable and prostrate。〃

I on my knees had fallen; and wished to speak;
  But even as I began; and he was 'ware;
  Only by listening; of my reverence;

〃What cause;〃 he said; 〃has downward bent thee thus?〃
  And I to him: 〃For your own dignity;
  Standing; my conscience stung me with remorse。〃

〃Straighten thy legs; and upward raise thee; brother;〃
  He answered: 〃Err not; fellow…servant am I
  With thee and with the others to one power。

If e'er that holy; evangelic sound;
  Which sayeth 'neque nubent;' thou hast heard;
  Well canst thou see why in this wise I speak。

Now go; no longer will I have thee linger;
  Because thy stay doth incommode my weeping;
  With which I ripen that which thou hast said。

On earth I have a grandchild named Alagia;
  Good in herself; unless indeed our house
  Malevolent may make her by example;

And she alone remains to me on earth。〃



Purgatorio: Canto XX


Ill strives the will against a better will;
  Therefore; to pleasure him; against my pleasure
  I drew the sponge not saturate from the water。

Onward I moved; and onward moved my Leader;
  Through vacant places; skirting still the rock;
  As on a wall close to the battlements;

For they that through their eyes pour drop by drop
  The malady which all the world pervades;
  On the other side too near the verge approach。

Accursed mayst thou be; thou old she…wolf;
  That more than all the other beasts hast prey;
  Because of hunger infinitely hollow!

O heaven; in whose gyrations some appear
  To think conditions here below are changed;
  When will he come through whom she shall depart?

Onward we went with footsteps slow and scarce;
  And I attentive to the shades I heard
  Piteously weeping and bemoaning them;

And I by peradventure heard 〃Sweet Mary!〃
  Uttered in front of us amid the weeping
  Even as a woman does who is in child…birth;

And in continuance: 〃How poor thou wast
  Is manifested by that hostelry
  Where thou didst lay thy sacred burden down。〃

Thereafterward I heard: 〃O good Fabricius;
  Virtue with poverty didst thou prefer
  To the possession of great wealth with vice。〃

So pleasurable were these words to me
  That I drew farther onward to have knowledge
  Touching that spirit whence they seemed to come。

He furthermore was speaking of the largess
  Which Nicholas unto the maidens gave;
  In order to conduct their youth to honour。

〃O soul that dost so excellently speak;
  Tell me who wast thou;〃 said I; 〃and why only
  Thou dost renew these praises well deserved?

Not without recompense shall be thy word;
  If I return to finish the short journey
  Of that life which is flying to its end。〃

And he: 〃I'll tell thee; not for any comfort
  I may expect from earth; but that so much
  Grace shines in thee or ever thou art dead。

I was the root of that malignant plant
  Which overshadows all the Christian world;
  So that good fruit is seldom gathered from it;

But if Douay and Ghent; and Lille and Bruges
  Had Power; soon vengeance would be taken on it;
  And this I pray of Him who judges all。

Hugh Capet was I called upon the earth;
  From me were born the Louises and Philips;
  By whom in later days has France been governed。

I was the son of a Parisian butcher;
  What time the ancient kings had perished all;
  Excepting one; contrite in cloth of gray。

I found me grasping in my hands the rein
  Of the realm's government; and so great power
  Of new acquest; and so with friends abounding;

That to the widowed diadem promoted
  The head of mine own offspring was; from whom
  The consecrated bones of these began。

So long as the great dowry of Provence
  Out of my blood took not the sense of shame;
  'Twas little worth; but still it did no harm。

Then it began with falsehood and with force
  Its rapine; and thereafter; for amends;
  Took Ponthieu; Normandy; and Gascony。

Charles came to Italy; and for amends
  A victim made of Conradin; and then
  Thrust Thomas back to heaven; for amends。

A time I see; not very distant now;
  Which drawe

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