The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . all. O ye misguided souls ! 10 Infatuate, who from such a good estrangeYour hearts, and bend your gaze on vanity,Alas for you !—And lo ! toward me, next,Another of those splendent forms approached,That, by its outward brightening, testifiedThe will it had to pleasure me. The eyesOf Beatrice, resting, as upon me, manifested forthApproval of my wish. And O, I cried,* Blest spirit! quickly be my will performed ; 20 270 THE VISION OF DANTE [Cantoix And prove thou to me, that my inmost thoughts1 can reflect on thee. The
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . all. O ye misguided souls ! 10 Infatuate, who from such a good estrangeYour hearts, and bend your gaze on vanity,Alas for you !—And lo ! toward me, next,Another of those splendent forms approached,That, by its outward brightening, testifiedThe will it had to pleasure me. The eyesOf Beatrice, resting, as upon me, manifested forthApproval of my wish. And O, I cried,* Blest spirit! quickly be my will performed ; 20 270 THE VISION OF DANTE [Cantoix And prove thou to me, that my inmost thoughts1 can reflect on thee. Thereat the light,That yet was new to me, from the recess,Where it before was singing, thus began,As one who joys in kindness: In that partOf the depraved Italian land, which liesBetween Rialto and the fountain-springsOf Brenta and of Piava, there doth to no lofty eminence, a whence erewhile a firebrand did descend,That sorely shent the region. From one rootI and it sprang ; my name on earth Cunizza:And here I glitter, for that by its light 30. This star oercame me. Yet I naught repine,Nor grudge myself the cause of this my lot:Which haply vulgar hearts can scarce conceive. * This jewel, that is next me in our heaven,Lustrous and costly, great renown hath not to perish, ere these hundred yearsFive times absolve their round. Consider to excel be worthy mans such life may attend the first. Yet theyCare not for this, the crowd that now are girtBy Adice and Tagliamento, stillImpenitent, though scourged. The hour is nearWhen for their stubbornness, at Paduas marshThe water shall be changed, that laves where Cagnano meets with Sile, one 40 . Lines 21-97] PARADISE 271 Lords it, and bears his head aloft, for whom The web is now a-warping. Feltro too 5° Shall sorrow for its godless shepherds fault, Of so deep stain, that never, for the like, Was Maltas bar unclosed. Too large should be The skillet that would hold Ferraras bl
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