The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . notIts impress, now is stamped my brain by thee. 80 But wherefore soars thy wished-for speech so highBeyond my sight, that loses it the more it strains to reach it ? — To the endThat thou mayst know, she answered straight, the school,That thou hast followed ; and how far following my discourse, its learning halts:And mayst behold your art, from the divineAs distant, as the disagreement is Lines 40-116] PURGATORY 239 Twixt earth and heavens most high and rapturous orb. I not remember, I replied, that eer 90 I
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . notIts impress, now is stamped my brain by thee. 80 But wherefore soars thy wished-for speech so highBeyond my sight, that loses it the more it strains to reach it ? — To the endThat thou mayst know, she answered straight, the school,That thou hast followed ; and how far following my discourse, its learning halts:And mayst behold your art, from the divineAs distant, as the disagreement is Lines 40-116] PURGATORY 239 Twixt earth and heavens most high and rapturous orb. I not remember, I replied, that eer 90 I was estranged from thee ; nor for such faultDoth conscience chide me. Smiling she returned: If thou canst not remember, call to mindHow lately thou hast drunk of Lethes wave;And, sure as smoke doth indicate a that forgetfulness itself concludeBlame from thy alienated will henceforth, verily, my words shall beAs naked, as will suit them to appearIn thy unpractised view. More sparkling now, 100 And with retarded course, the sun possessed. The circle of mid-day, that varies still As the aspect varies of each several clime ; When, as one, sent in vaward of a troop For escort, pauses, if perchance he spy Vestige of somewhat strange and rare; so paused The sevenfold band, arriving at the verge Of a dun umbrage hoar, such as is seen. Beneath green leaves and gloomy branches, oft To overbrow a bleak and alpine cliff. And, where they stood, before them, as it seemed, I, Tigris and Euphrates both, beheld Forth from one fountain issue ; and, like friends. Linger at parting. O enlightening beam. O glory of our kind ! beseech thee say What water this, which, from one source derived, no 240 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xxxni Itself removes to distance from itself ? To such entreaty answer thus was made: Entreat Matilda, that she teach thee this. And here, as one who clears himself of blame 120 Imputed, the fair dame returned : Of meHe this and more hath learnt; and I
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