The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . for themselves, but for their kindred dear,Mothers and sires, and those whom best they loved, 60Ere they were made imperishable flame. And lo ! forthwith there rose up round aboutA lustre, over that already there ;Of equal clearness, like the brightening upOf the horizon. As at evening hourOf twilight, new appearances through heavenPeer with faint glimmer, doubtfully descried ;So, there, new substances, methought, beganTo rise in view beyond the other twain. 288 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xiv And wheeling, sweep their ampler cir
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . for themselves, but for their kindred dear,Mothers and sires, and those whom best they loved, 60Ere they were made imperishable flame. And lo ! forthwith there rose up round aboutA lustre, over that already there ;Of equal clearness, like the brightening upOf the horizon. As at evening hourOf twilight, new appearances through heavenPeer with faint glimmer, doubtfully descried ;So, there, new substances, methought, beganTo rise in view beyond the other twain. 288 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xiv And wheeling, sweep their ampler circuit wide. 70 0 genuine glitter of eternal Beam !With what a sudden whiteness did it flow,Oerpowering vision in me. But so fair,So passing lovely, Beatrice cannot follow it, nor words expressHer infinite sweetness. Thence mine eyes regainedPower to look up ; and I beheld with my lady, to more lofty blissTranslated : for the star, with warmer smileImpurpled, well denoted our ascent. 80 With all the heart, and with that tongue which speaks. The same in all, an holocaust I made To God, befitting the new grace vouchsafed. And from my bosom had not yet upsteamd The fuming of that incense, when I knew The rite accepted. With such mighty sheen And mantling crimson, in two listed rays The splendours shot before me, that I cried, God of Sabaoth ! that dost prank them thus ! As leads the galaxy from pole to into greater lights and pathway, which the wisest fail to spell ;So thickly studded, in the depth of Mars,Those rays described the venerable quadrants in the round conjoining frame. Here memory mocks the toil of genius. Christ 90 I Canto xv] PARADISE 289 Beamed on that cross ; and pattern fails me whoso takes his cross, and follows Christ,Will pardon me for that I leave untold,When in the fleckered dawning he shall spy loo The glitterance of Christ. From horn to tween the summit and the base, did moveLights
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