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Which I endured would have bewildered me��
If but mine eyes had been averted from it��
And I remember that I was more bold
On this account to bear�察�so that I joined
My aspect with the Glory Infinite。
O grace abundant�察�by which I presumed
To fix my sight upon the Light Eternal��
So that the seeing I consumed therein��
I saw that in its depth far down is lying
Bound up with love together in one volume��
What through the universe in leaves is scattered��
Substance�察�and accident�察�and their operations��
All interfused together in such wise
That what I speak of is one simple light。
The universal fashion of this knot
Methinks I saw�察�since more abundantly
In saying this I feel that I rejoice。
One moment is more lethargy to me��
Than five and twenty centuries to the emprise
That startled Neptune with the shade of Argo��
My mind in this wise wholly in suspense��
Steadfast�察�immovable�察�attentive gazed��
And evermore with gazing grew enkindled。
In presence of that light one such becomes��
That to withdraw therefrom for other prospect
It is impossible he e'er consent��
Because the good�察�which object is of will��
Is gathered all in this�察�and out of it
That is defective which is perfect there。
Shorter henceforward will my language fall
Of what I yet remember�察�than an infant's
Who still his tongue doth moisten at the breast。
Not because more than one unmingled semblance
Was in the living light on which I looked��
For it is always what it was before��
But through the sight�察�that fortified itself
In me by looking�察�one appearance only
To me was ever changing as I changed。
Within the deep and luminous subsistence
Of the High Light appeared to me three circles��
Of threefold colour and of one dimension��
And by the second seemed the first reflected
As Iris is by Iris�察�and the third
Seemed fire that equally from both is breathed。
O how all speech is feeble and falls short
Of my conceit�察�and this to what I saw
Is such�察�'tis not enough to call it little��
O Light Eterne�察�sole in thyself that dwellest��
Sole knowest thyself�察�and�察�known unto thyself
And knowing�察�lovest and smilest on thyself��
That circulation�察�which being thus conceived
Appeared in thee as a reflected light��
When somewhat contemplated by mine eyes��
Within itself�察�of its own very colour
Seemed to me painted with our effigy��
Wherefore my sight was all absorbed therein。
As the geometrician�察�who endeavours
To square the circle�察�and discovers not��
By taking thought�察�the principle he wants��
Even such was I at that new apparition��
I wished to see how the image to the circle
Conformed itself�察�and how it there finds place��
But my own wings were not enough for this��
Had it not been that then my mind there smote
A flash of lightning�察�wherein came its wish。
Here vigour failed the lofty fantasy��
But now was turning my desire and will��
Even as a wheel that equally is moved��
The Love which moves the sun and the other stars。
APPENDIX
SIX SONNETS ON DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY
BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ��1807´1882��
I
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door
A laborer�察�pausing in the dust and heat��
Lay down his burden�察�and with reverent feet
Enter�察�and cross himself�察�and on the floor
Kneel to repeat his paternoster o'er��
Far off the noises of the world retreat��
The loud vociferations of the street
Become an undistinguishable roar。
So�察�as I enter here from day to day��
And leave my burden at this minster gate��
Kneeling in prayer�察�and not ashamed to pray��
The tumult of the time disconsolate
To inarticulate murmurs dies away��
While the eternal ages watch and wait。
II
How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers��
This crowd of statues�察�in whose folded sleeves
Birds build their nests�察�while canopied with leaves
Parvis and portal bloom like trellised bowers��
And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers��
But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves
Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves��
And�察�underneath�察�the traitor Judas lowers��
Ah� �from what agonies of heart and brain��
What exultations trampling on despair��
What tenderness�察�what tears�察�what hate of wrong��
What passionate outcry of a soul in pain��
Uprose this poem of the earth and air��
This mediaeval miracle of song��
III
I enter�察�and I see thee in the gloom
Of the long aisles�察�O poet saturnine��
And strive to make my steps keep pace with thine。
The air is filled with some unknown perfume��
The congregation of the dead make room
For thee to pass�察�the votive tapers shine��
Like rooks that haunt Ravenna's groves of pine��
The hovering echoes fly from tomb to tomb。
From the confessionals I hear arise
Rehearsals of forgotten tragedies��
And lamentations from the crypts below
And then a voice celestial that begins
With the pathetic words�察 �Although your sins
As scarlet be�察─�and ends with ;as the snow。;
IV
With snow´white veil�察�and garments as of flame��
She stands before thee�察�who so long ago
Filled thy young heart with passion and the woe
From which thy song in all its splendors came��
And while with stern rebuke she speaks thy name��
The ice about thy heart melts as the snow
On mountain heights�察�and in swift overflow
Comes gushing from thy lips in sobs of shame。
Thou makest full confession�察�and a gleam
As of the dawn on some dark forest cast��
Seems on thy lifted forehead to increase��
Lethe and Eunoethe remembered dream
And the forgotten sorrowbring at last
That perfect pardon which is perfect peace。
V
I Lift mine eyes�察�and all the windows blaze
With forms of saints and holy men who died��
Here martyred and hereafter glorified��
And the great Rose upon its leaves displays
Christ's Triumph�察�and the angelic roundelays��
With splendor upon splendor multiplied��
And Beatrice again at Dante's side
No more rebukes�察�but smiles her words of praise。
And then the organ sounds�察�and unseen choirs
Sing the old Latin hymns of peace and love
And benedictions of the Holy Ghost��
And the melodious bells among the spires
O'er all the house´tops and through heaven above
Proclaim the elevation of the Host��
VI
O star of morning and of liberty��
O bringer of the light�察�whose splendor shines
Above the darkness of the Apennines��
Forerunner of the day that is to be��
The voices of the city and the sea��
The voices of the mountains and the pines��
Repeat thy song�察�till the familiar lines
Are footpaths for the thought of Italy��
Thy fame is blown abroad from all the heights��
Through all the nations�察�and a sound is heard��
As of a mighty wind�察�and men devout��
Strangers of Rome�察�and the new proselytes��
In their own language hear thy wondrous word��
And many are amazed and many doubt。
End