The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . nted that way to look. Along the side, where barrier none aroseAround the little vale, a serpent haply as gave Eve the bitter the grass and flowers, the evil snakeCame on, reverting oft his lifted head ; 100 And, as a beast that smooths its polished coat,Licking his back. I saw not, nor can those celestial falcons from their scatMoved, but in motion each one well descried. ?S 1 Lines 56-132] PURGATORY 149 Hearing the air cut by their verdant plumes,The serpent fled ; and, to their stations, backThe
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . nted that way to look. Along the side, where barrier none aroseAround the little vale, a serpent haply as gave Eve the bitter the grass and flowers, the evil snakeCame on, reverting oft his lifted head ; 100 And, as a beast that smooths its polished coat,Licking his back. I saw not, nor can those celestial falcons from their scatMoved, but in motion each one well descried. ?S 1 Lines 56-132] PURGATORY 149 Hearing the air cut by their verdant plumes,The serpent fled ; and, to their stations, backThe angels up returned with equal flight. The spirit (who to Nino, when he come), from viewing me with fixed all that conflict, loosened not his sight. So may the lamp, which leads thee up on high,Find, in thy free resolve, of wax so may suffice thee to the enamelled height,It thus began : If any certain newsOf Valdimagra and the neighbour partThou knowst, tell me, who once was mighty called me Conrad Malaspina ; not 110. That old one ; but from him I sprang. The loveI bore my people is now here refined. In your domains, I answered, neer was I. 120 But, through all Europe, where do those men dwell,To whom their glory is not manifest ?The fame, that honours your illustrious house,Proclaims the nobles, and proclaims the land ;So that he knows it, who was never swear to you, so may my upward routeProsper-, your honoured nation not impairsThe value of her cotfer and her and use give her such while the world is twisted from his course 130 By a bad head, she only walks aright,And has the evil way in scorn. He then: 150 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto viii Now pass thee on : seven times the tired sun Revisits not the couch, which with four feet The forked Aries covers, ere that kind Opinion shall be nailed into thy brain With stronger nails than others speech can drive ; If the sure course of judgement be not stayed
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