The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . th he in posture thus reversed ?And how from eve to morn in space so briefHath the sun made his transit ? He in fewThus answering spake : Thou deemest thou art still 100On the other side the centre, where I graspedThe abhorred worm that boretli through the wast on the other side, so long as IDescended ; when I turned, thou didst oerpassThat point, to which from every part is dragged 120 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xxxiv All heavy substance. Thou art now arrived Under the hemisphere opposed to that, Which the great cont
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . th he in posture thus reversed ?And how from eve to morn in space so briefHath the sun made his transit ? He in fewThus answering spake : Thou deemest thou art still 100On the other side the centre, where I graspedThe abhorred worm that boretli through the wast on the other side, so long as IDescended ; when I turned, thou didst oerpassThat point, to which from every part is dragged 120 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xxxiv All heavy substance. Thou art now arrived Under the hemisphere opposed to that, Which the great continent doth overspread, And underneath whose canopy expired The Man, that was born sinless and so lived. Thy feet are planted on the smallest sphere, Whose other aspect is Judecca. Morn Here rises, when there evening sets : and he. Whose shaggy pile we scaled, yet standeth fixed. As at the first. On this part he fell down From heaven ; and th earth, here prominent before, Through fear of him did veil her with the sea. And to our hemisphere retired. Perchance, no. To shun him, was the vacant space left here. By what of firm land on this side appears. That sprang aloof. There is a place beneath. From Belzebub as distant, as extends The vaulted tomb ; discovered not by sight, But by the sound of brooklet, that descends This way along the hollow of a rock. Which, as it winds with no precipitous course, The wave hath eaten. By that hidden way My guide and I did enter, to return To the fair world : and heedless of repose We climbed, he first, I following his steps. Till on our view the beautiful lights of heaven Dawned through a circular opening in the cave: Thence issuing we again beheld the stars. 120 130 PURGATORY CANTO I ARGUMENT The Poet describes the delight he experienced at issuing a Httle before dawnfrom the infernal regions, into the pure air that surrounds the isle ofPurgatory; and then relates how, turning to the right, he beheld fourstars never seen before but by our firs
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