The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . urden. Sith our LiegeWills of his grace, that thou, or eer thy death,In the most secret council with his lordsShouldst be confronted, so that having viewedThe glories of our court, thou mayst therewithThyself, and all who hear, invigorateWith hope, that leads to blissful end ; declare,What is that hope ? how it doth flourish in thee ?And whence thou hadst it ? Thus, proceeding still, 50The second light: and she, whose gentle loveMy soaring pennons in that lofty flight Lines 4-79] PARADISE 327 Escorted, thus preventing me, rejoin
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . urden. Sith our LiegeWills of his grace, that thou, or eer thy death,In the most secret council with his lordsShouldst be confronted, so that having viewedThe glories of our court, thou mayst therewithThyself, and all who hear, invigorateWith hope, that leads to blissful end ; declare,What is that hope ? how it doth flourish in thee ?And whence thou hadst it ? Thus, proceeding still, 50The second light: and she, whose gentle loveMy soaring pennons in that lofty flight Lines 4-79] PARADISE 327 Escorted, thus preventing me, rejoined: Among her sons, not one more full of hope,Hath the church militant: so tis of himRecorded in the sun, whose liberal orbEnlighteneth all our tribe: and ere his termOf warfare, hence permitted he is come,From Egypt to Jerusalem, to other points, both which thou hast for more knowledge, but that he may tellHow dear thou holdst the virtue ; these to himLeave I: for he may answer thee with without boasting, so God give him grace. 60. Like to the scholar, practised in his task,Who, willing to give proof of diligence,Seconds his teacher gladly; Hope, said I,* Is of the joy to come a sure effect of grace divine and merit light from many a star, visits my heart; 70 But flowed to me, the first, from him who sangThe songs of the Supreme ; himself supremeAmong his tuneful brethren. Let all hopeIn thee, so spake his anthem, who have knownThy name; and, with my faith, who know not that ?From thee, the next, distilling from his thine epistle, fell on me the dropsSo plenteously, that I on others showerThe influence of their dew. Whileas I spake, 328 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xxv A lamping, as of quick and volleyed lightning, 80 Within the bosom of that mighty sheen Played tremulous ; then forth these accents breathed : Love for the virtue, which attended me Een to the palm, and issuing from the field, Glows vigorous yet
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