The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . elude stillWas Agnus Dei ; and through all the voice, one measure ran, that perfect seemedThe concord of their song. Are these I hear 20 Spirits, 0 master ? I exclaimed ; and he, Thou aimst aright: these loose the bonds of wrath. Now who art thou, that through our smoke dost cleave,And speakst of us, as thou thyself een yetDividedst time by calends ? So one voiceBespake me ; whence my mast-er said, Reply ; 176 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xvi And ask, if upward hence the passage lead. O being ! who dost make thee pure, t
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . elude stillWas Agnus Dei ; and through all the voice, one measure ran, that perfect seemedThe concord of their song. Are these I hear 20 Spirits, 0 master ? I exclaimed ; and he, Thou aimst aright: these loose the bonds of wrath. Now who art thou, that through our smoke dost cleave,And speakst of us, as thou thyself een yetDividedst time by calends ? So one voiceBespake me ; whence my mast-er said, Reply ; 176 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xvi And ask, if upward hence the passage lead. O being ! who dost make thee pure, to standBeautiful once more in thy Makers sight;Along with me : and thou shalt hear and I, whereto the spirit answering spake : Long as tis lawful for me, shall my stepsFollow on thine ; and since the cloudy smokoForbids the seeing, hearing in its steadShall keep us joined. I then forthwith began: Yet in my mortal swathing, I ascendTo higher regions ; and am hither comeThorough the fearful agony of , if so largely God hath doled his grace, 30. That, clean beside all modern precedent. He wills me to behold his kingly state ; From me conceal not who thou wast, ere death Had loosed thee ; but instruct me : and instruct If rightly to the pass I tend ; thy words The way directing, as a safe escort. I was of Lombardy, and Marco called :Not inexperienced of the world, that worthI still affected, from which all have turnedThe nerveless bow aside. Thy course tends rightUnto the summit: and, replying added, I beseech thee pray for thou shalt come aloft. And I to him Accept my faith for pledge I will perform 40 50 Lines 27-I02] • PURGATORY 177 What thou requirest. Yet one doubt remains, That wrings me sorely, if I solve it not. Singly before it urged me, doubled now By thine opinion, when I couple that With one elsewhere declared ; each strengthening other. The world indeed is even so forlorn Of all good, as thou speakst it, and so swarms 60 With every
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