Image from page 386 of "The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri" (1916)
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Title: The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri
Authors: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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heavenly host sympathize in his indignation : they thenvanish upwards. Beatrice bids IDante again cast his view below. After-wards they are borne into the ninth heaven, of which she shows him thenature and properties; blaming the perverseness of man, Mho places hiswill on low and perishable things. Then * Glory to the Father, to the Son,And to the Holy Spirit, rang aloudThroughout all Paradise ; that with the song Canto xxvii] PARADISE 333 My spirit reeled, so passing sweet the strain.And what I saw was equal ecstasy:One universal smile it seemed of all things;Joy past compare ; gladness unutterable ;Imperishable life of peace and love ;Exhaustless riches, and unmeasured bliss. Before mine eyes stood the four torches lit:And that, which first had come, began to waxIn brightness; and, in semblance, such became,As Jove might be, if he and Mars were birds.And interchanged their plumes. Silence ensued.Through the blest choir ; by Him, who here appointsVicissitude of ministry, enjoined; lO
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When thus I heard: Wonder not, if my hue Be changed ; for, while I speak, these shalt thou see All in like manner change with me. My place He who usurps on earth (my place, aye, mine, 20 Which in the presence of the Son of God Is void), the same hath made my cemetery A common sewer of puddle and of blood: The more below his triumph, who from hence Malignant fell. Such colour, as the sun, At eve or morning, paints an adverse cloud, Then saw I sprinkled over all the sky. And as the unblemished dame, who, in herself Secure of censure, yet at bare report Of others failing, shrinks with maiden fear; 30 334 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xxvn So Beatrice, in her semblance changed: And such eclipse in heaven, methinks, was seen. When the Most Holy suffered. Then the words Proceeded, with voice, altered from itself So clean, the semblance did not alter more. Not to this end was Christs spouse with my blood, With that of Linus, and of Cletus, fed; That she might serve for purchase of base gold*. B
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Image from page 386 of "The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri" (1916)
Identifier: visionorhell00dant
Title: The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri
Authors: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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Publisher: London : Humphrey Milford : Oxford University Press
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heavenly host sympathize in his indignation : they thenvanish upwards. Beatrice bids IDante again cast his view below. After-wards they are borne into the ninth heaven, of which she shows him thenature and properties; blaming the perverseness of man, Mho places hiswill on low and perishable things. Then * Glory to the Father, to the Son,And to the Holy Spirit, rang aloudThroughout all Paradise ; that with the song Canto xxvii] PARADISE 333 My spirit reeled, so passing sweet the strain.And what I saw was equal ecstasy:One universal smile it seemed of all things;Joy past compare ; gladness unutterable ;Imperishable life of peace and love ;Exhaustless riches, and unmeasured bliss. Before mine eyes stood the four torches lit:And that, which first had come, began to waxIn brightness; and, in semblance, such became,As Jove might be, if he and Mars were birds.And interchanged their plumes. Silence ensued.Through the blest choir ; by Him, who here appointsVicissitude of ministry, enjoined; lO
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When thus I heard: Wonder not, if my hue Be changed ; for, while I speak, these shalt thou see All in like manner change with me. My place He who usurps on earth (my place, aye, mine, 20 Which in the presence of the Son of God Is void), the same hath made my cemetery A common sewer of puddle and of blood: The more below his triumph, who from hence Malignant fell. Such colour, as the sun, At eve or morning, paints an adverse cloud, Then saw I sprinkled over all the sky. And as the unblemished dame, who, in herself Secure of censure, yet at bare report Of others failing, shrinks with maiden fear; 30 334 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xxvn So Beatrice, in her semblance changed: And such eclipse in heaven, methinks, was seen. When the Most Holy suffered. Then the words Proceeded, with voice, altered from itself So clean, the semblance did not alter more. Not to this end was Christs spouse with my blood, With that of Linus, and of Cletus, fed; That she might serve for purchase of base gold*. B
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