The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . ne eyes returned. 150 CANTO XXIII ARGUMENT He sees Christ triumphing with his church. The Saviour ascends, followedby his Virgin Mother. The others remain with St. Peter. Een as the bird, who midst the leafy bowerHas, in her nest, sat darkling through the night,With her sweet brood ; impatient to descryTheir wished looks, and to bring home their the fond quest unconscious of her toil:She, of the time prevenient, on the spray. Canto xxiii] PARADISE 319 That overhangs their couch, with wakeful gazeExpects the sun ; nor eve
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . ne eyes returned. 150 CANTO XXIII ARGUMENT He sees Christ triumphing with his church. The Saviour ascends, followedby his Virgin Mother. The others remain with St. Peter. Een as the bird, who midst the leafy bowerHas, in her nest, sat darkling through the night,With her sweet brood ; impatient to descryTheir wished looks, and to bring home their the fond quest unconscious of her toil:She, of the time prevenient, on the spray. Canto xxiii] PARADISE 319 That overhangs their couch, with wakeful gazeExpects the sun ; nor ever, till the dawn,Removeth from the east her eager ken :So stood the dame erect, and bent her glanceWistfully on that region, where the sunAbateth most his speed; that, seeing herSuspense and wondering, I became as one,In whom desire is wakened, and the hopeOf somewhat new to come fills with delight. Short space ensued; I was not held, I say,Long in expectance, when I saw the heavenWax more and more resplendent; and, Behold,Cried Beatrice, the triumphal hosts lO. Of Christ, and all the harvest gathered in, 20 Made ripe by these revolving spheres. Meseemed,That, while she spake, her image all did burn ;And in her eyes such fullness was of I am fain to pass unconstrued by. As in the calm full moon, when Trivia peerless beauty, mid the eternal nymphs,That paint through all its gulfs the blue profound ;In bright pre-eminence so saw I thereOer million lamps a sun, from whom all drewTheir radiance, as from ours the starry train: 30 And, through the living light, so lustrous glowedThe substance, that my ken endured it not. O Beatrice ! sweet and precious guide. 320 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xxiii Who cheered me with her comfortable words: Against the virtue, that oerpowereth thee, Avails not to resist. Here is the Might, And here the Wisdom, which did open lay The path, that had been yearned for so long. Betwixt the heaven and earth. Like to the fire, That, in a cloud
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