The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . nce apt, hast left liberal bounty still toward me keep :That, when my spirit, which thou madest whole,Is loosened from this body, it may find 80 Favour with thee. So 1 my suit preferred:And she, so distant, as appeared, looked smiled ; then towards the eternal fountain turned. And thus the senior, holy and revered: * That thou at length mayst happily concludeThy voyage (to which end I was dispatched, Lines 38-114] PARADISE 349 By supplication moved and holy love). Let thy upsoaring vision range, at large, Th
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . nce apt, hast left liberal bounty still toward me keep :That, when my spirit, which thou madest whole,Is loosened from this body, it may find 80 Favour with thee. So 1 my suit preferred:And she, so distant, as appeared, looked smiled ; then towards the eternal fountain turned. And thus the senior, holy and revered: * That thou at length mayst happily concludeThy voyage (to which end I was dispatched, Lines 38-114] PARADISE 349 By supplication moved and holy love). Let thy upsoaring vision range, at large, This garden through : for so, by ray divine Kindled, thy ken a higher flight shall mount; And from heavens queen, whom fervent I adore. All gracious aid befriend us ; for that I Am her own faithful Bernard. Like a wight. Who haply from Croatia wends to see Our Veronica; and the while tis shown. Hangs over it with never-sated gaze. And, all that he hath heard revolving, saith Unto himself in thought: And didst thou look Een thus, 0 Jesus, my true Lord and God ? 90. And was this semblance thine ? So gazed I then 100 Adoring; for the charity of him, Who musing, in this world that peace enjoyed. Stood livelily before me. Child of grace ! Thus he began: thou shalt not knowledge gain Of this glad being, if thine eyes are held Still in this depth below. But search around The circles, to the farthest, till thou spy Seated in state, the queen, that of this realm Is sovereign. Straight mine eyes I raised ; and bright. As, at the birth of morn, the eastern clime no Above the horizon, where the sun declines ; So to mine eyes, that upward, as from vale To mountain sped, at the extreme bound, a part Excelled in lustre all the front opposed. 350 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xxxi And as the glow burns ruddiest oer the wave, That waits the ascending team, which Phaeton 111 knew to guide, and on each part the light Diminished fades, intensest in the midst; So burned the peaceful oriflamme, and slack
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