The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . cried. Forthwith it grew 50 In size and splendour, through augmented joy ;And thus it answered : A short date, world possessed me. Had the time been more,Much evil, that will come, had never gladness hides thee from me, which doth shineAround, and shroud me, as an animalIn its own silk enswathed. Thou lovedst me hadst good cause ; for had my sojourningBeen longer on the earth, the love I bare theeHad put forth more than blossoms. The left bank, 60 Lines 12-87] PARADISE 267 That Rhone, when he hath m
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . cried. Forthwith it grew 50 In size and splendour, through augmented joy ;And thus it answered : A short date, world possessed me. Had the time been more,Much evil, that will come, had never gladness hides thee from me, which doth shineAround, and shroud me, as an animalIn its own silk enswathed. Thou lovedst me hadst good cause ; for had my sojourningBeen longer on the earth, the love I bare theeHad put forth more than blossoms. The left bank, 60 Lines 12-87] PARADISE 267 That Rhone, when he hath mixed with Sorga, laves,In me its lord expected, and that hornOf fair Ausonia, with its boroughs old,Bari, and Croton, and Gaeta piled,From where the Trento disembogues his waves,With Verde mingled, to the salt-sea on my temples beamed the gave me sovereignty over the landBy Danube washed, whenas he strays beyondThe limits of his German shores. The realm,Where, on the gulf by stormy Eurus Pelorus and Pachynian heights. 70. The beautiful Trinacria lies in gloom (Not through Typhoeus, but the vapoury cloud Bituminous upsteamed), that too did look To have its sceptre wielded by a race Of monarchs, sprung through me from Charles and Rodolph; Had not ill-lording, which doth desperate make The people ever, in Palermo raised The shout of death , re-echoed loud and long. 80 Had but my brothers foresight kenned as much. He had been warier, that the greedy want Of Catalonia might not work his bale. And truly need there is that he forecast, Or other for him, lest more freight be laid On his already overladen bark. Nature in him, from bounty fallen to thrift, 268 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto vin Would ask the guard of braver arms, than suchAs only care to have their coffers filled. My liege ! it doth enhance the joy thy words 90 Infuse into me, mighty as it is,To think my gladness manifest to thee,As to myself, who own it, when thou lookstInto the sour
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