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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/8791-h.zip b/8791-h.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..54cfbfb --- /dev/null +++ b/8791-h.zip diff --git a/8791-h/8791-h.htm b/8791-h/8791-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f78e6a --- /dev/null +++ b/8791-h/8791-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1460 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>Dante's Purgatory, Part 2.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:15%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + table {font-size: 120%;} + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + +</head> +<body> + +<h2>THE VISION OF PURGATORY, Part 2. +<br>By Dante Alighieri, Illustrated by Dore</h2> +<pre> + +Project Gutenberg's The Vision of Purgatory, Part 2, by Dante Alighieri + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Vision of Purgatory, Part 2 + +Author: Dante Alighieri + +Release Date: August 3, 2004 [EBook #8791] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VISION OF PURGATORY, PART 2 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + +<br> +<hr> +<br><br><br><br><br><br> + + + +<center> +<h1>THE VISION</h1><br> +<h2>OF</h2><br> +<h1>HELL, PURGATORY, AND PARADISE</h1><br> +<h2>BY</h2><br> +<h1>DANTE ALIGHIERI</h1> + +<br><br><br> +<br><br><br> +<h2>PURGATORY</h2> +<h3>Part 2</h3> +<br><br><br> +<h3>TRANSLATED BY</h3><br> +<h2>THE REV. H. F. CARY, M.A.</h2> + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/cover.jpg"><img alt="coverth.jpg (42K)" src="images/coverth.jpg" height="478" width="553"></a> +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/frontispiece.jpg"><img alt="front2.jpg (41K)" src="images/front2.jpg" height="477" width="431"></a> +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/titlepage.jpg"><img alt="title2.jpg (21K)" src="images/title2.jpg" height="535" width="416"></a> + +<br><br><br><br> +<br><br><br><br> +<h1>PURGATORY</h1> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h2>LIST OF CANTOS</h2> +</center> + +<center> +<table summary="Contents"> +<tr><td> + + +<a href="#5">Canto 5</a><br> +<a href="#6">Canto 6</a><br> +<a href="#7">Canto 7</a><br> +<a href="#8">Canto 8</a><br> +<a href="#9">Canto 9</a><br> +<a href="#10">Canto 10</a><br> + + + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<table summary="Purgatory"> +<tr><td> +<br><br> + + + + + +<br><br> +<a name="5"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO V</h2> +<br> + +<p>Now had I left those spirits, and pursued<br> +The steps of my Conductor, when beheld<br> +Pointing the finger at me one exclaim'd:<br> +"See how it seems as if the light not shone<br> +From the left hand of him beneath, and he,<br> +As living, seems to be led on." Mine eyes<br> +I at that sound reverting, saw them gaze<br> +Through wonder first at me, and then at me<br> +And the light broken underneath, by turns.<br> +"Why are thy thoughts thus riveted?" my guide<br> +Exclaim'd, "that thou hast slack'd thy pace? or how<br> +Imports it thee, what thing is whisper'd here?<br> +Come after me, and to their babblings leave<br> +The crowd. Be as a tower, that, firmly set,<br> +Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!<br> +He, in whose bosom thought on thought shoots out,<br> +Still of his aim is wide, in that the one<br> +Sicklies and wastes to nought the other's strength."<br> + What other could I answer save "I come?"<br> +I said it, somewhat with that colour ting'd<br> +Which ofttimes pardon meriteth for man.<br> + Meanwhile traverse along the hill there came,<br> +A little way before us, some who sang<br> +The "Miserere" in responsive Strains.<br> +When they perceiv'd that through my body I<br> +Gave way not for the rays to pass, their song<br> +Straight to a long and hoarse exclaim they chang'd;<br> +And two of them, in guise of messengers,<br> +Ran on to meet us, and inquiring ask'd:<br> +"Of your condition we would gladly learn."<br> + To them my guide. "Ye may return, and bear<br> +Tidings to them who sent you, that his frame<br> +Is real flesh. If, as I deem, to view<br> +His shade they paus'd, enough is answer'd them.<br> +Him let them honour, they may prize him well."<br> + Ne'er saw I fiery vapours with such speed<br> +Cut through the serene air at fall of night,<br> +Nor August's clouds athwart the setting sun,<br> +That upward these did not in shorter space<br> +Return; and, there arriving, with the rest<br> +Wheel back on us, as with loose rein a troop.<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/05-42.jpg"><img alt="05-42th.jpg (38K)" src="images/05-42th.jpg" height="477" width="428"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + + "Many," exclaim'd the bard, "are these, who throng<br> +Around us: to petition thee they come.<br> +Go therefore on, and listen as thou go'st."<br> + "O spirit! who go'st on to blessedness<br> +With the same limbs, that clad thee at thy birth."<br> +Shouting they came, "a little rest thy step.<br> +Look if thou any one amongst our tribe<br> +Hast e'er beheld, that tidings of him there<br> +Thou mayst report. Ah, wherefore go'st thou on?<br> +Ah wherefore tarriest thou not? We all<br> +By violence died, and to our latest hour<br> +Were sinners, but then warn'd by light from heav'n,<br> +So that, repenting and forgiving, we<br> +Did issue out of life at peace with God,<br> +Who with desire to see him fills our heart."<br> + Then I: "The visages of all I scan<br> +Yet none of ye remember. But if aught,<br> +That I can do, may please you, gentle spirits!<br> +Speak; and I will perform it, by that peace,<br> +Which on the steps of guide so excellent<br> +Following from world to world intent I seek."<br> + In answer he began: "None here distrusts<br> +Thy kindness, though not promis'd with an oath;<br> +So as the will fail not for want of power.<br> +Whence I, who sole before the others speak,<br> +Entreat thee, if thou ever see that land,<br> +Which lies between Romagna and the realm<br> +Of Charles, that of thy courtesy thou pray<br> +Those who inhabit Fano, that for me<br> +Their adorations duly be put up,<br> +By which I may purge off my grievous sins.<br> +From thence I came. But the deep passages,<br> +Whence issued out the blood wherein I dwelt,<br> +Upon my bosom in Antenor's land<br> +Were made, where to be more secure I thought.<br> +The author of the deed was Este's prince,<br> +Who, more than right could warrant, with his wrath<br> +Pursued me. Had I towards Mira fled,<br> +When overta'en at Oriaco, still<br> +Might I have breath'd. But to the marsh I sped,<br> +And in the mire and rushes tangled there<br> +Fell, and beheld my life-blood float the plain."<br> + Then said another: "Ah! so may the wish,<br> +That takes thee o'er the mountain, be fulfill'd,<br> +As thou shalt graciously give aid to mine.<br> +Of Montefeltro I; Buonconte I:<br> +Giovanna nor none else have care for me,<br> +Sorrowing with these I therefore go." I thus:<br> +"From Campaldino's field what force or chance<br> +Drew thee, that ne'er thy sepulture was known?"<br> + "Oh!" answer'd he, "at Casentino's foot<br> +A stream there courseth, nam'd Archiano, sprung<br> +In Apennine above the Hermit's seat.<br> +E'en where its name is cancel'd, there came I,<br> +Pierc'd in the heart, fleeing away on foot,<br> +And bloodying the plain. Here sight and speech<br> +Fail'd me, and finishing with Mary's name<br> +I fell, and tenantless my flesh remain'd.<br> +I will report the truth; which thou again<br> +Tell to the living. Me God's angel took,<br> +Whilst he of hell exclaim'd: "O thou from heav'n!<br> +Say wherefore hast thou robb'd me? Thou of him<br> +Th' eternal portion bear'st with thee away<br> +For one poor tear that he deprives me of.<br> +But of the other, other rule I make."<br> + "Thou knowest how in the atmosphere collects<br> +That vapour dank, returning into water,<br> +Soon as it mounts where cold condenses it.<br> +That evil will, which in his intellect<br> +Still follows evil, came, and rais'd the wind<br> +And smoky mist, by virtue of the power<br> +Given by his nature. Thence the valley, soon<br> +As day was spent, he cover'd o'er with cloud<br> +From Pratomagno to the mountain range,<br> +And stretch'd the sky above, so that the air<br> +Impregnate chang'd to water. Fell the rain,<br> +And to the fosses came all that the land<br> +Contain'd not; and, as mightiest streams are wont,<br> +To the great river with such headlong sweep<br> +Rush'd, that nought stay'd its course. My stiffen'd frame<br> +Laid at his mouth the fell Archiano found,<br> +And dash'd it into Arno, from my breast<br> +Loos'ning the cross, that of myself I made<br> +When overcome with pain. He hurl'd me on,<br> +Along the banks and bottom of his course;<br> +Then in his muddy spoils encircling wrapt."<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/05-123.jpg"><img alt="05-123th.jpg (44K)" src="images/05-123th.jpg" height="549" width="432"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + + "Ah! when thou to the world shalt be return'd,<br> +And rested after thy long road," so spake<br> +Next the third spirit; "then remember me.<br> +I once was Pia. Sienna gave me life,<br> +Maremma took it from me. That he knows,<br> +Who me with jewell'd ring had first espous'd."</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/05-130.jpg"><img alt="05-130th.jpg (44K)" src="images/05-130th.jpg" height="461" width="432"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<a name="6"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO VI</h2> +<br> + +<p>When from their game of dice men separate,<br> +He, who hath lost, remains in sadness fix'd,<br> +Revolving in his mind, what luckless throws<br> +He cast: but meanwhile all the company<br> +Go with the other; one before him runs,<br> +And one behind his mantle twitches, one<br> +Fast by his side bids him remember him.<br> +He stops not; and each one, to whom his hand<br> +Is stretch'd, well knows he bids him stand aside;<br> +And thus he from the press defends himself.<br> +E'en such was I in that close-crowding throng;<br> +And turning so my face around to all,<br> +And promising, I 'scap'd from it with pains.<br> + Here of Arezzo him I saw, who fell<br> +By Ghino's cruel arm; and him beside,<br> +Who in his chase was swallow'd by the stream.<br> +Here Frederic Novello, with his hand<br> +Stretch'd forth, entreated; and of Pisa he,<br> +Who put the good Marzuco to such proof<br> +Of constancy. Count Orso I beheld;<br> +And from its frame a soul dismiss'd for spite<br> +And envy, as it said, but for no crime:<br> +I speak of Peter de la Brosse; and here,<br> +While she yet lives, that Lady of Brabant<br> +Let her beware; lest for so false a deed<br> +She herd with worse than these. When I was freed<br> +From all those spirits, who pray'd for others' prayers<br> +To hasten on their state of blessedness;<br> +Straight I began: "O thou, my luminary!<br> +It seems expressly in thy text denied,<br> +That heaven's supreme decree can never bend<br> +To supplication; yet with this design<br> +Do these entreat. Can then their hope be vain,<br> +Or is thy saying not to me reveal'd?"<br> + He thus to me: "Both what I write is plain,<br> +And these deceiv'd not in their hope, if well<br> +Thy mind consider, that the sacred height<br> +Of judgment doth not stoop, because love's flame<br> +In a short moment all fulfils, which he<br> +Who sojourns here, in right should satisfy.<br> +Besides, when I this point concluded thus,<br> +By praying no defect could be supplied;<br> +Because the pray'r had none access to God.<br> +Yet in this deep suspicion rest thou not<br> +Contented unless she assure thee so,<br> +Who betwixt truth and mind infuses light.<br> +I know not if thou take me right; I mean<br> +Beatrice. Her thou shalt behold above,<br> +Upon this mountain's crown, fair seat of joy."<br> + Then I: "Sir! let us mend our speed; for now<br> +I tire not as before; and lo! the hill<br> +Stretches its shadow far." He answer'd thus:<br> +"Our progress with this day shall be as much<br> +As we may now dispatch; but otherwise<br> +Than thou supposest is the truth. For there<br> +Thou canst not be, ere thou once more behold<br> +Him back returning, who behind the steep<br> +Is now so hidden, that as erst his beam<br> +Thou dost not break. But lo! a spirit there<br> +Stands solitary, and toward us looks:<br> +It will instruct us in the speediest way."<br> + We soon approach'd it. O thou Lombard spirit!<br> +How didst thou stand, in high abstracted mood,<br> +Scarce moving with slow dignity thine eyes!<br> +It spoke not aught, but let us onward pass,<br> +Eyeing us as a lion on his watch.<br> +But Virgil with entreaty mild advanc'd,<br> +Requesting it to show the best ascent.<br> +It answer to his question none return'd,<br> +But of our country and our kind of life<br> +Demanded. When my courteous guide began,<br> +"Mantua," the solitary shadow quick<br> +Rose towards us from the place in which it stood,<br> +And cry'd, "Mantuan! I am thy countryman<br> +Sordello." Each the other then embrac'd.<br> + Ah slavish Italy! thou inn of grief,<br> +Vessel without a pilot in loud storm,<br> +Lady no longer of fair provinces,<br> +But brothel-house impure! this gentle spirit,<br> +Ev'n from the Pleasant sound of his dear land<br> +Was prompt to greet a fellow citizen<br> +With such glad cheer; while now thy living ones<br> +In thee abide not without war; and one<br> +Malicious gnaws another, ay of those<br> +Whom the same wall and the same moat contains,<br> +Seek, wretched one! around thy sea-coasts wide;<br> +Then homeward to thy bosom turn, and mark<br> +If any part of the sweet peace enjoy.<br> +What boots it, that thy reins Justinian's hand<br> +Befitted, if thy saddle be unpress'd?<br> +Nought doth he now but aggravate thy shame.<br> +Ah people! thou obedient still shouldst live,<br> +And in the saddle let thy Caesar sit,<br> +If well thou marked'st that which God commands.<br> + Look how that beast to felness hath relaps'd<br> +From having lost correction of the spur,<br> +Since to the bridle thou hast set thine hand,<br> +O German Albert! who abandon'st her,<br> +That is grown savage and unmanageable,<br> +When thou should'st clasp her flanks with forked heels.<br> +Just judgment from the stars fall on thy blood!<br> +And be it strange and manifest to all!<br> +Such as may strike thy successor with dread!<br> +For that thy sire and thou have suffer'd thus,<br> +Through greediness of yonder realms detain'd,<br> +The garden of the empire to run waste.<br> +Come see the Capulets and Montagues,<br> +The Philippeschi and Monaldi! man<br> +Who car'st for nought! those sunk in grief, and these<br> +With dire suspicion rack'd. Come, cruel one!<br> +Come and behold the' oppression of the nobles,<br> +And mark their injuries: and thou mayst see.<br> +What safety Santafiore can supply.<br> +Come and behold thy Rome, who calls on thee,<br> +Desolate widow! day and night with moans:<br> +"My Caesar, why dost thou desert my side?"<br> +Come and behold what love among thy people:<br> +And if no pity touches thee for us,<br> +Come and blush for thine own report. For me,<br> +If it be lawful, O Almighty Power,<br> +Who wast in earth for our sakes crucified!<br> +Are thy just eyes turn'd elsewhere? or is this<br> +A preparation in the wond'rous depth<br> +Of thy sage counsel made, for some good end,<br> +Entirely from our reach of thought cut off?<br> +So are the' Italian cities all o'erthrong'd<br> +With tyrants, and a great Marcellus made<br> +Of every petty factious villager.<br> + My Florence! thou mayst well remain unmov'd<br> +At this digression, which affects not thee:<br> +Thanks to thy people, who so wisely speed.<br> +Many have justice in their heart, that long<br> +Waiteth for counsel to direct the bow,<br> +Or ere it dart unto its aim: but shine<br> +Have it on their lip's edge. Many refuse<br> +To bear the common burdens: readier thine<br> +Answer uneall'd, and cry, "Behold I stoop!"<br> + Make thyself glad, for thou hast reason now,<br> +Thou wealthy! thou at peace! thou wisdom-fraught!<br> +Facts best witness if I speak the truth.<br> +Athens and Lacedaemon, who of old<br> +Enacted laws, for civil arts renown'd,<br> +Made little progress in improving life<br> +Tow'rds thee, who usest such nice subtlety,<br> +That to the middle of November scarce<br> +Reaches the thread thou in October weav'st.<br> +How many times, within thy memory,<br> +Customs, and laws, and coins, and offices<br> +Have been by thee renew'd, and people chang'd!<br> + If thou remember'st well and can'st see clear,<br> +Thou wilt perceive thyself like a sick wretch,<br> +Who finds no rest upon her down, but oft<br> +Shifting her side, short respite seeks from pain.</p> + + +<br><br> +<a name="7"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO VII</h2> +<br> + +<p>After their courteous greetings joyfully<br> +Sev'n times exchang'd, Sordello backward drew<br> +Exclaiming, "Who are ye?" "Before this mount<br> +By spirits worthy of ascent to God<br> +Was sought, my bones had by Octavius' care<br> +Been buried. I am Virgil, for no sin<br> +Depriv'd of heav'n, except for lack of faith."<br> + So answer'd him in few my gentle guide.<br> + As one, who aught before him suddenly<br> +Beholding, whence his wonder riseth, cries<br> +"It is yet is not," wav'ring in belief;<br> +Such he appear'd; then downward bent his eyes,<br> +And drawing near with reverential step,<br> +Caught him, where of mean estate might clasp<br> +His lord. "Glory of Latium!" he exclaim'd,<br> +"In whom our tongue its utmost power display'd!<br> +Boast of my honor'd birth-place! what desert<br> +Of mine, what favour rather undeserv'd,<br> +Shows thee to me? If I to hear that voice<br> +Am worthy, say if from below thou com'st<br> +And from what cloister's pale?"—"Through every orb<br> +Of that sad region," he reply'd, "thus far<br> +Am I arriv'd, by heav'nly influence led<br> +And with such aid I come. There is a place<br> +There underneath, not made by torments sad,<br> +But by dun shades alone; where mourning's voice<br> +Sounds not of anguish sharp, but breathes in sighs."<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/07-21.jpg"><img alt="07-21th.jpg (40K)" src="images/07-21th.jpg" height="477" width="433"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +There I with little innocents abide,<br> +Who by death's fangs were bitten, ere exempt<br> +From human taint. There I with those abide,<br> +Who the three holy virtues put not on,<br> +But understood the rest, and without blame<br> +Follow'd them all. But if thou know'st and canst,<br> +Direct us, how we soonest may arrive,<br> +Where Purgatory its true beginning takes."<br> + He answer'd thus: "We have no certain place<br> +Assign'd us: upwards I may go or round,<br> +Far as I can, I join thee for thy guide.<br> +But thou beholdest now how day declines:<br> +And upwards to proceed by night, our power<br> +Excels: therefore it may be well to choose<br> +A place of pleasant sojourn. To the right<br> +Some spirits sit apart retir'd. If thou<br> +Consentest, I to these will lead thy steps:<br> +And thou wilt know them, not without delight."<br> + "How chances this?" was answer'd; "who so wish'd<br> +To ascend by night, would he be thence debarr'd<br> +By other, or through his own weakness fail?"<br> + The good Sordello then, along the ground<br> +Trailing his finger, spoke: "Only this line<br> +Thou shalt not overpass, soon as the sun<br> +Hath disappear'd; not that aught else impedes<br> +Thy going upwards, save the shades of night.<br> +These with the wont of power perplex the will.<br> +With them thou haply mightst return beneath,<br> +Or to and fro around the mountain's side<br> +Wander, while day is in the horizon shut."<br> + My master straight, as wond'ring at his speech,<br> +Exclaim'd: "Then lead us quickly, where thou sayst,<br> +That, while we stay, we may enjoy delight."<br> + A little space we were remov'd from thence,<br> +When I perceiv'd the mountain hollow'd out.<br> +Ev'n as large valleys hollow'd out on earth,<br> + "That way," the' escorting spirit cried, "we go,<br> +Where in a bosom the high bank recedes:<br> +And thou await renewal of the day."<br> + Betwixt the steep and plain a crooked path<br> +Led us traverse into the ridge's side,<br> +Where more than half the sloping edge expires.<br> +Refulgent gold, and silver thrice refin'd,<br> +And scarlet grain and ceruse, Indian wood<br> +Of lucid dye serene, fresh emeralds<br> +But newly broken, by the herbs and flowers<br> +Plac'd in that fair recess, in color all<br> +Had been surpass'd, as great surpasses less.<br> +Nor nature only there lavish'd her hues,<br> +But of the sweetness of a thousand smells<br> +A rare and undistinguish'd fragrance made.<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/07-82.jpg"><img alt="07-82th.jpg (43K)" src="images/07-82th.jpg" height="477" width="433"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + + "Salve Regina," on the grass and flowers<br> +Here chanting I beheld those spirits sit<br> +Who not beyond the valley could be seen.<br> + "Before the west'ring sun sink to his bed,"<br> +Began the Mantuan, who our steps had turn'd,<br> + "'Mid those desires not that I lead ye on.<br> +For from this eminence ye shall discern<br> +Better the acts and visages of all,<br> +Than in the nether vale among them mix'd.<br> +He, who sits high above the rest, and seems<br> +To have neglected that he should have done,<br> +And to the others' song moves not his lip,<br> +The Emperor Rodolph call, who might have heal'd<br> +The wounds whereof fair Italy hath died,<br> +So that by others she revives but slowly,<br> +He, who with kindly visage comforts him,<br> +Sway'd in that country, where the water springs,<br> +That Moldaw's river to the Elbe, and Elbe<br> +Rolls to the ocean: Ottocar his name:<br> +Who in his swaddling clothes was of more worth<br> +Than Winceslaus his son, a bearded man,<br> +Pamper'd with rank luxuriousness and ease.<br> +And that one with the nose depress, who close<br> +In counsel seems with him of gentle look,<br> +Flying expir'd, with'ring the lily's flower.<br> +Look there how he doth knock against his breast!<br> +The other ye behold, who for his cheek<br> +Makes of one hand a couch, with frequent sighs.<br> +They are the father and the father-in-law<br> +Of Gallia's bane: his vicious life they know<br> +And foul; thence comes the grief that rends them thus.<br> + "He, so robust of limb, who measure keeps<br> +In song, with him of feature prominent,<br> +With ev'ry virtue bore his girdle brac'd.<br> +And if that stripling who behinds him sits,<br> +King after him had liv'd, his virtue then<br> +From vessel to like vessel had been pour'd;<br> +Which may not of the other heirs be said.<br> +By James and Frederick his realms are held;<br> +Neither the better heritage obtains.<br> +Rarely into the branches of the tree<br> +Doth human worth mount up; and so ordains<br> +He who bestows it, that as his free gift<br> +It may be call'd. To Charles my words apply<br> +No less than to his brother in the song;<br> +Which Pouille and Provence now with grief confess.<br> +So much that plant degenerates from its seed,<br> +As more than Beatrice and Margaret<br> +Costanza still boasts of her valorous spouse.<br> + "Behold the king of simple life and plain,<br> +Harry of England, sitting there alone:<br> +He through his branches better issue spreads.<br> + "That one, who on the ground beneath the rest<br> +Sits lowest, yet his gaze directs aloft,<br> +Us William, that brave Marquis, for whose cause<br> +The deed of Alexandria and his war<br> +Makes Conferrat and Canavese weep."</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="8"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO VIII</h2> +<br> + +<p>Now was the hour that wakens fond desire<br> +In men at sea, and melts their thoughtful heart,<br> +Who in the morn have bid sweet friends farewell,<br> +And pilgrim newly on his road with love<br> +Thrills, if he hear the vesper bell from far,<br> +That seems to mourn for the expiring day:<br> +When I, no longer taking heed to hear<br> +Began, with wonder, from those spirits to mark<br> +One risen from its seat, which with its hand<br> +Audience implor'd. Both palms it join'd and rais'd,<br> +Fixing its steadfast gaze towards the east,<br> +As telling God, "I care for naught beside."<br> + "Te Lucis Ante," so devoutly then<br> +Came from its lip, and in so soft a strain,<br> +That all my sense in ravishment was lost.<br> +And the rest after, softly and devout,<br> +Follow'd through all the hymn, with upward gaze<br> +Directed to the bright supernal wheels.<br> + Here, reader! for the truth makes thine eyes keen:<br> +For of so subtle texture is this veil,<br> +That thou with ease mayst pass it through unmark'd.<br> + I saw that gentle band silently next<br> +Look up, as if in expectation held,<br> +Pale and in lowly guise; and from on high<br> +I saw forth issuing descend beneath<br> +Two angels with two flame-illumin'd swords,<br> +Broken and mutilated at their points.<br> +Green as the tender leaves but newly born,<br> +Their vesture was, the which by wings as green<br> +Beaten, they drew behind them, fann'd in air.<br> +A little over us one took his stand,<br> +The other lighted on the' Opposing hill,<br> +So that the troop were in the midst contain'd.<br> + Well I descried the whiteness on their heads;<br> +But in their visages the dazzled eye<br> +Was lost, as faculty that by too much<br> +Is overpower'd. "From Mary's bosom both<br> +Are come," exclaim'd Sordello, "as a guard<br> +Over the vale, ganst him, who hither tends,<br> +The serpent." Whence, not knowing by which path<br> +He came, I turn'd me round, and closely press'd,<br> +All frozen, to my leader's trusted side.<br> + Sordello paus'd not: "To the valley now<br> +(For it is time) let us descend; and hold<br> +Converse with those great shadows: haply much<br> +Their sight may please ye." Only three steps down<br> +Methinks I measur'd, ere I was beneath,<br> +And noted one who look'd as with desire<br> +To know me. Time was now that air arrow dim;<br> +Yet not so dim, that 'twixt his eyes and mine<br> +It clear'd not up what was conceal'd before.<br> +Mutually tow'rds each other we advanc'd.<br> +Nino, thou courteous judge! what joy I felt,<br> +When I perceiv'd thou wert not with the bad!<br> + No salutation kind on either part<br> +Was left unsaid. He then inquir'd: "How long<br> +Since thou arrived'st at the mountain's foot,<br> +Over the distant waves?"—"O!" answer'd I,<br> +"Through the sad seats of woe this morn I came,<br> +And still in my first life, thus journeying on,<br> +The other strive to gain." Soon as they heard<br> +My words, he and Sordello backward drew,<br> +As suddenly amaz'd. To Virgil one,<br> +The other to a spirit turn'd, who near<br> +Was seated, crying: "Conrad! up with speed:<br> +Come, see what of his grace high God hath will'd."<br> +Then turning round to me: "By that rare mark<br> +Of honour which thou ow'st to him, who hides<br> +So deeply his first cause, it hath no ford,<br> +When thou shalt be beyond the vast of waves.<br> +Tell my Giovanna, that for me she call<br> +There, where reply to innocence is made.<br> +Her mother, I believe, loves me no more;<br> +Since she has chang'd the white and wimpled folds,<br> +Which she is doom'd once more with grief to wish.<br> +By her it easily may be perceiv'd,<br> +How long in women lasts the flame of love,<br> +If sight and touch do not relume it oft.<br> +For her so fair a burial will not make<br> +The viper which calls Milan to the field,<br> +As had been made by shrill Gallura's bird."<br> + He spoke, and in his visage took the stamp<br> +Of that right seal, which with due temperature<br> +Glows in the bosom. My insatiate eyes<br> +Meanwhile to heav'n had travel'd, even there<br> +Where the bright stars are slowest, as a wheel<br> +Nearest the axle; when my guide inquir'd:<br> +"What there aloft, my son, has caught thy gaze?"<br> + I answer'd: "The three torches, with which here<br> +The pole is all on fire." He then to me:<br> +"The four resplendent stars, thou saw'st this morn<br> +Are there beneath, and these ris'n in their stead."<br> + While yet he spoke. Sordello to himself<br> +Drew him, and cry'd: "Lo there our enemy!"<br> +And with his hand pointed that way to look.<br> + Along the side, where barrier none arose<br> +Around the little vale, a serpent lay,<br> +Such haply as gave Eve the bitter food.<br> +Between the grass and flowers, the evil snake<br> +Came on, reverting oft his lifted head;<br> +And, as a beast that smoothes its polish'd coat,<br> +Licking his hack. I saw not, nor can tell,<br> +How those celestial falcons from their seat<br> +Mov'd, but in motion each one well descried,<br> +Hearing the air cut by their verdant plumes.<br> +The serpent fled; and to their stations back<br> +The angels up return'd with equal flight.<br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/frontispiece.jpg"><img alt="front2.jpg (41K)" src="images/front2.jpg" height="477" width="431"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + The Spirit (who to Nino, when he call'd,<br> +Had come), from viewing me with fixed ken,<br> +Through all that conflict, loosen'd not his sight.<br> + "So may the lamp, which leads thee up on high,<br> +Find, in thy destin'd lot, of wax so much,<br> +As may suffice thee to the enamel's height."<br> +It thus began: "If any certain news<br> +Of Valdimagra and the neighbour part<br> +Thou know'st, tell me, who once was mighty there<br> +They call'd me Conrad Malaspina, not<br> +That old one, but from him I sprang. The love<br> +I bore my people is now here refin'd."<br> + "In your dominions," I answer'd, "ne'er was I.<br> +But through all Europe where do those men dwell,<br> +To whom their glory is not manifest?<br> +The fame, that honours your illustrious house,<br> +Proclaims the nobles and proclaims the land;<br> +So that he knows it who was never there.<br> +I swear to you, so may my upward route<br> +Prosper! your honour'd nation not impairs<br> +The value of her coffer and her sword.<br> +Nature and use give her such privilege,<br> +That while the world is twisted from his course<br> +By a bad head, she only walks aright,<br> +And has the evil way in scorn." He then:<br> +"Now pass thee on: sev'n times the tired sun<br> +Revisits not the couch, which with four feet<br> +The forked Aries covers, ere that kind<br> +Opinion shall be nail'd into thy brain<br> +With stronger nails than other's speech can drive,<br> +If the sure course of judgment be not stay'd."</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="9"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO IX</h2> + +<br><br> +<a href="images/09-1.jpg"><img alt="09-1th.jpg (28K)" src="images/09-1th.jpg" height="458" width="428"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>Now the fair consort of Tithonus old,<br> +Arisen from her mate's beloved arms,<br> +Look'd palely o'er the eastern cliff: her brow,<br> +Lucent with jewels, glitter'd, set in sign<br> +Of that chill animal, who with his train<br> +Smites fearful nations: and where then we were,<br> +Two steps of her ascent the night had past,<br> +And now the third was closing up its wing,<br> +When I, who had so much of Adam with me,<br> +Sank down upon the grass, o'ercome with sleep,<br> +There where all five were seated. In that hour,<br> +When near the dawn the swallow her sad lay,<br> +Rememb'ring haply ancient grief, renews,<br> +And with our minds more wand'rers from the flesh,<br> +And less by thought restrain'd are, as 't were, full<br> +Of holy divination in their dreams,<br> +Then in a vision did I seem to view<br> +A golden-feather'd eagle in the sky,<br> +With open wings, and hov'ring for descent,<br> +And I was in that place, methought, from whence<br> +Young Ganymede, from his associates 'reft,<br> +Was snatch'd aloft to the high consistory.<br> +"Perhaps," thought I within me, "here alone<br> +He strikes his quarry, and elsewhere disdains<br> +To pounce upon the prey." Therewith, it seem'd,<br> +A little wheeling in his airy tour<br> +Terrible as the lightning rush'd he down,<br> +And snatch'd me upward even to the fire.<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/09-29.jpg"><img alt="09-29th.jpg (42K)" src="images/09-29th.jpg" height="477" width="438"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +There both, I thought, the eagle and myself<br> +Did burn; and so intense th' imagin'd flames,<br> +That needs my sleep was broken off. As erst<br> +Achilles shook himself, and round him roll'd<br> +His waken'd eyeballs wond'ring where he was,<br> +Whenas his mother had from Chiron fled<br> +To Scyros, with him sleeping in her arms;<br> +E'en thus I shook me, soon as from my face<br> +The slumber parted, turning deadly pale,<br> +Like one ice-struck with dread. Solo at my side<br> +My comfort stood: and the bright sun was now<br> +More than two hours aloft: and to the sea<br> +My looks were turn'd. "Fear not," my master cried,<br> +"Assur'd we are at happy point. Thy strength<br> +Shrink not, but rise dilated. Thou art come<br> +To Purgatory now. Lo! there the cliff<br> +That circling bounds it! Lo! the entrance there,<br> +Where it doth seem disparted! Ere the dawn<br> +Usher'd the daylight, when thy wearied soul<br> +Slept in thee, o'er the flowery vale beneath<br> +A lady came, and thus bespake me: I<br> +Am Lucia. Suffer me to take this man,<br> +Who slumbers. Easier so his way shall speed."<br> +Sordello and the other gentle shapes<br> +Tarrying, she bare thee up: and, as day shone,<br> +This summit reach'd: and I pursued her steps.<br> +Here did she place thee. First her lovely eyes<br> +That open entrance show'd me; then at once<br> +She vanish'd with thy sleep." Like one, whose doubts<br> +Are chas'd by certainty, and terror turn'd<br> +To comfort on discovery of the truth,<br> +Such was the change in me: and as my guide<br> +Beheld me fearless, up along the cliff<br> +He mov'd, and I behind him, towards the height.<br> + Reader! thou markest how my theme doth rise,<br> +Nor wonder therefore, if more artfully<br> +I prop the structure! Nearer now we drew,<br> +Arriv'd' whence in that part, where first a breach<br> +As of a wall appear'd, I could descry<br> +A portal, and three steps beneath, that led<br> +For inlet there, of different colour each,<br> +And one who watch'd, but spake not yet a word.<br> +As more and more mine eye did stretch its view,<br> +I mark'd him seated on the highest step,<br> +In visage such, as past my power to bear.<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/09-74.jpg"><img alt="09-74th.jpg (41K)" src="images/09-74th.jpg" height="541" width="429"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +Grasp'd in his hand a naked sword, glanc'd back<br> +The rays so toward me, that I oft in vain<br> +My sight directed. "Speak from whence ye stand:"<br> +He cried: "What would ye? Where is your escort?<br> +Take heed your coming upward harm ye not."<br> + "A heavenly dame, not skilless of these things,"<br> +Replied the' instructor, "told us, even now,<br> +'Pass that way: here the gate is."—"And may she<br> +Befriending prosper your ascent," resum'd<br> +The courteous keeper of the gate: "Come then<br> +Before our steps." We straightway thither came.<br> + The lowest stair was marble white so smooth<br> +And polish'd, that therein my mirror'd form<br> +Distinct I saw. The next of hue more dark<br> +Than sablest grain, a rough and singed block,<br> +Crack'd lengthwise and across. The third, that lay<br> +Massy above, seem'd porphyry, that flam'd<br> +Red as the life-blood spouting from a vein.<br> +On this God's angel either foot sustain'd,<br> +Upon the threshold seated, which appear'd<br> +A rock of diamond. Up the trinal steps<br> +My leader cheerily drew me. "Ask," said he,<br> + "With humble heart, that he unbar the bolt."<br> + Piously at his holy feet devolv'd<br> +I cast me, praying him for pity's sake<br> +That he would open to me: but first fell<br> +Thrice on my bosom prostrate. Seven times<br> +The letter, that denotes the inward stain,<br> +He on my forehead with the blunted point<br> +Of his drawn sword inscrib'd. And "Look," he cried,<br> +"When enter'd, that thou wash these scars away."<br> + Ashes, or earth ta'en dry out of the ground,<br> +Were of one colour with the robe he wore.<br> +From underneath that vestment forth he drew<br> +Two keys of metal twain: the one was gold,<br> +Its fellow silver. With the pallid first,<br> +And next the burnish'd, he so ply'd the gate,<br> +As to content me well. "Whenever one<br> +Faileth of these, that in the keyhole straight<br> +It turn not, to this alley then expect<br> +Access in vain." Such were the words he spake.<br> +"One is more precious: but the other needs<br> +Skill and sagacity, large share of each,<br> +Ere its good task to disengage the knot<br> +Be worthily perform'd. From Peter these<br> +I hold, of him instructed, that I err<br> +Rather in opening than in keeping fast;<br> +So but the suppliant at my feet implore."<br> + Then of that hallow'd gate he thrust the door,<br> +Exclaiming, "Enter, but this warning hear:<br> +He forth again departs who looks behind."<br> + As in the hinges of that sacred ward<br> +The swivels turn'd, sonorous metal strong,<br> +Harsh was the grating; nor so surlily<br> +Roar'd the Tarpeian, when by force bereft<br> +Of good Metellus, thenceforth from his loss<br> +To leanness doom'd. Attentively I turn'd,<br> +List'ning the thunder, that first issued forth;<br> +And "We praise thee, O God," methought I heard<br> +In accents blended with sweet melody.<br> +The strains came o'er mine ear, e'en as the sound<br> +Of choral voices, that in solemn chant<br> +With organ mingle, and, now high and clear,<br> +Come swelling, now float indistinct away.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="10"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO X</h2> +<br> + +<p>When we had passed the threshold of the gate<br> +(Which the soul's ill affection doth disuse,<br> +Making the crooked seem the straighter path),<br> +I heard its closing sound. Had mine eyes turn'd,<br> +For that offence what plea might have avail'd?<br> + We mounted up the riven rock, that wound<br> +On either side alternate, as the wave<br> +Flies and advances. "Here some little art<br> +Behooves us," said my leader, "that our steps<br> +Observe the varying flexure of the path."<br> + Thus we so slowly sped, that with cleft orb<br> +The moon once more o'erhangs her wat'ry couch,<br> +Ere we that strait have threaded. But when free<br> +We came and open, where the mount above<br> +One solid mass retires, I spent, with toil,<br> +And both, uncertain of the way, we stood,<br> +Upon a plain more lonesome, than the roads<br> +That traverse desert wilds. From whence the brink<br> +Borders upon vacuity, to foot<br> +Of the steep bank, that rises still, the space<br> +Had measur'd thrice the stature of a man:<br> +And, distant as mine eye could wing its flight,<br> +To leftward now and now to right dispatch'd,<br> +That cornice equal in extent appear'd.<br> + Not yet our feet had on that summit mov'd,<br> +When I discover'd that the bank around,<br> +Whose proud uprising all ascent denied,<br> +Was marble white, and so exactly wrought<br> +With quaintest sculpture, that not there alone<br> +Had Polycletus, but e'en nature's self<br> +Been sham'd. The angel who came down to earth<br> +With tidings of the peace so many years<br> +Wept for in vain, that op'd the heavenly gates<br> +From their long interdict before us seem'd,<br> +In a sweet act, so sculptur'd to the life,<br> +He look'd no silent image. One had sworn<br> +He had said, "Hail!" for she was imag'd there,<br> +By whom the key did open to God's love,<br> +And in her act as sensibly impress<br> +That word, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord,"<br> +As figure seal'd on wax. "Fix not thy mind<br> +On one place only," said the guide belov'd,<br> +Who had me near him on that part where lies<br> +The heart of man. My sight forthwith I turn'd<br> +And mark'd, behind the virgin mother's form,<br> +Upon that side, where he, that mov'd me, stood,<br> +Another story graven on the rock.<br> + I passed athwart the bard, and drew me near,<br> +That it might stand more aptly for my view.<br> +There in the self-same marble were engrav'd<br> +The cart and kine, drawing the sacred ark,<br> +That from unbidden office awes mankind.<br> +Before it came much people; and the whole<br> +Parted in seven quires. One sense cried, "Nay,"<br> +Another, "Yes, they sing." Like doubt arose<br> +Betwixt the eye and smell, from the curl'd fume<br> +Of incense breathing up the well-wrought toil.<br> +Preceding the blest vessel, onward came<br> +With light dance leaping, girt in humble guise,<br> +Sweet Israel's harper: in that hap he seem'd<br> +Less and yet more than kingly. Opposite,<br> +At a great palace, from the lattice forth<br> +Look'd Michol, like a lady full of scorn<br> +And sorrow. To behold the tablet next,<br> +Which at the hack of Michol whitely shone,<br> +I mov'd me. There was storied on the rock<br> +The' exalted glory of the Roman prince,<br> +Whose mighty worth mov'd Gregory to earn<br> +His mighty conquest, Trajan th' Emperor.<br> +A widow at his bridle stood, attir'd<br> +In tears and mourning. Round about them troop'd<br> +Full throng of knights, and overhead in gold<br> +The eagles floated, struggling with the wind.<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/10-74.jpg"><img alt="10-74th.jpg (40K)" src="images/10-74th.jpg" height="476" width="433"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +The wretch appear'd amid all these to say:<br> +"Grant vengeance, sire! for, woe beshrew this heart<br> +My son is murder'd." He replying seem'd;<br> + "Wait now till I return." And she, as one<br> +Made hasty by her grief; "O sire, if thou<br> +Dost not return?"—"Where I am, who then is,<br> +May right thee."—"What to thee is other's good,<br> +If thou neglect thy own?"—"Now comfort thee,"<br> +At length he answers. "It beseemeth well<br> +My duty be perform'd, ere I move hence:<br> +So justice wills; and pity bids me stay."<br> + He, whose ken nothing new surveys, produc'd<br> +That visible speaking, new to us and strange<br> +The like not found on earth. Fondly I gaz'd<br> +Upon those patterns of meek humbleness,<br> +Shapes yet more precious for their artist's sake,<br> +When "Lo," the poet whisper'd, "where this way<br> +(But slack their pace), a multitude advance.<br> +These to the lofty steps shall guide us on."<br> + Mine eyes, though bent on view of novel sights<br> +Their lov'd allurement, were not slow to turn.<br> + Reader! I would not that amaz'd thou miss<br> +Of thy good purpose, hearing how just God<br> +Decrees our debts be cancel'd. Ponder not<br> +The form of suff'ring. Think on what succeeds,<br> +Think that at worst beyond the mighty doom<br> +It cannot pass. "Instructor," I began,<br> +"What I see hither tending, bears no trace<br> +Of human semblance, nor of aught beside<br> +That my foil'd sight can guess." He answering thus:<br> +"So courb'd to earth, beneath their heavy teems<br> +Of torment stoop they, that mine eye at first<br> +Struggled as thine. But look intently thither,<br> +An disentangle with thy lab'ring view,<br> +What underneath those stones approacheth: now,<br> +E'en now, mayst thou discern the pangs of each."<br> + Christians and proud! O poor and wretched ones!<br> +That feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust<br> +Upon unstaid perverseness! Know ye not<br> +That we are worms, yet made at last to form<br> +The winged insect, imp'd with angel plumes<br> +That to heaven's justice unobstructed soars?<br> +Why buoy ye up aloft your unfleg'd souls?<br> +Abortive then and shapeless ye remain,<br> +Like the untimely embryon of a worm!<br> + As, to support incumbent floor or roof,<br> +For corbel is a figure sometimes seen,<br> +That crumples up its knees unto its breast,<br> +With the feign'd posture stirring ruth unfeign'd<br> +In the beholder's fancy; so I saw<br> +These fashion'd, when I noted well their guise.<br> + Each, as his back was laden, came indeed<br> +Or more or less contract; but it appear'd<br> +As he, who show'd most patience in his look,<br> +Wailing exclaim'd: "I can endure no more."</p> + + + + + + + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + + + +<br> +<br> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Vision of Purgatory, Part 2, by Dante Alighieri + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VISION OF PURGATORY, PART 2 *** + +***** This file should be named 8791-h.htm or 8791-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/8/7/9/8791/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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H. F. Cary, Illustrated by Gustave Dore + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Vision of Purgatory, Part 2 + Translated By The Rev. H. F. Cary, Illustrated by Gustave Dore + +Author: Dante Alighieri + +Release Date: August 3, 2004 [EBook #8791] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VISION OF PURGATORY, PART 2 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +THE VISION + +OF + +HELL, PURGATORY, AND PARADISE + +BY DANTE ALIGHIERI + + +TRANSLATED BY + +THE REV. H. F. CARY + + + + +PURGATORY + +Part 2 + +Cantos 5 - 10 + + + +CANTO V + +Now had I left those spirits, and pursued +The steps of my Conductor, when beheld +Pointing the finger at me one exclaim'd: +"See how it seems as if the light not shone +From the left hand of him beneath, and he, +As living, seems to be led on." Mine eyes +I at that sound reverting, saw them gaze +Through wonder first at me, and then at me +And the light broken underneath, by turns. +"Why are thy thoughts thus riveted?" my guide +Exclaim'd, "that thou hast slack'd thy pace? or how +Imports it thee, what thing is whisper'd here? +Come after me, and to their babblings leave +The crowd. Be as a tower, that, firmly set, +Shakes not its top for any blast that blows! +He, in whose bosom thought on thought shoots out, +Still of his aim is wide, in that the one +Sicklies and wastes to nought the other's strength." + +What other could I answer save "I come?" +I said it, somewhat with that colour ting'd +Which ofttimes pardon meriteth for man. + +Meanwhile traverse along the hill there came, +A little way before us, some who sang +The "Miserere" in responsive Strains. +When they perceiv'd that through my body I +Gave way not for the rays to pass, their song +Straight to a long and hoarse exclaim they chang'd; +And two of them, in guise of messengers, +Ran on to meet us, and inquiring ask'd: +"Of your condition we would gladly learn." + +To them my guide. "Ye may return, and bear +Tidings to them who sent you, that his frame +Is real flesh. If, as I deem, to view +His shade they paus'd, enough is answer'd them. +Him let them honour, they may prize him well." + +Ne'er saw I fiery vapours with such speed +Cut through the serene air at fall of night, +Nor August's clouds athwart the setting sun, +That upward these did not in shorter space +Return; and, there arriving, with the rest +Wheel back on us, as with loose rein a troop. + +"Many," exclaim'd the bard, "are these, who throng +Around us: to petition thee they come. +Go therefore on, and listen as thou go'st." + +"O spirit! who go'st on to blessedness +With the same limbs, that clad thee at thy birth." +Shouting they came, "a little rest thy step. +Look if thou any one amongst our tribe +Hast e'er beheld, that tidings of him there +Thou mayst report. Ah, wherefore go'st thou on? +Ah wherefore tarriest thou not? We all +By violence died, and to our latest hour +Were sinners, but then warn'd by light from heav'n, +So that, repenting and forgiving, we +Did issue out of life at peace with God, +Who with desire to see him fills our heart." + +Then I: "The visages of all I scan +Yet none of ye remember. But if aught, +That I can do, may please you, gentle spirits! +Speak; and I will perform it, by that peace, +Which on the steps of guide so excellent +Following from world to world intent I seek." + +In answer he began: "None here distrusts +Thy kindness, though not promis'd with an oath; +So as the will fail not for want of power. +Whence I, who sole before the others speak, +Entreat thee, if thou ever see that land, +Which lies between Romagna and the realm +Of Charles, that of thy courtesy thou pray +Those who inhabit Fano, that for me +Their adorations duly be put up, +By which I may purge off my grievous sins. +From thence I came. But the deep passages, +Whence issued out the blood wherein I dwelt, +Upon my bosom in Antenor's land +Were made, where to be more secure I thought. +The author of the deed was Este's prince, +Who, more than right could warrant, with his wrath +Pursued me. Had I towards Mira fled, +When overta'en at Oriaco, still +Might I have breath'd. But to the marsh I sped, +And in the mire and rushes tangled there +Fell, and beheld my life-blood float the plain." + +Then said another: "Ah! so may the wish, +That takes thee o'er the mountain, be fulfill'd, +As thou shalt graciously give aid to mine. +Of Montefeltro I; Buonconte I: +Giovanna nor none else have care for me, +Sorrowing with these I therefore go." I thus: +"From Campaldino's field what force or chance +Drew thee, that ne'er thy sepulture was known?" + +"Oh!" answer'd he, "at Casentino's foot +A stream there courseth, nam'd Archiano, sprung +In Apennine above the Hermit's seat. +E'en where its name is cancel'd, there came I, +Pierc'd in the heart, fleeing away on foot, +And bloodying the plain. Here sight and speech +Fail'd me, and finishing with Mary's name +I fell, and tenantless my flesh remain'd. +I will report the truth; which thou again +Tell to the living. Me God's angel took, +Whilst he of hell exclaim'd: "O thou from heav'n! +Say wherefore hast thou robb'd me? Thou of him +Th' eternal portion bear'st with thee away +For one poor tear that he deprives me of. +But of the other, other rule I make." + +"Thou knowest how in the atmosphere collects +That vapour dank, returning into water, +Soon as it mounts where cold condenses it. +That evil will, which in his intellect +Still follows evil, came, and rais'd the wind +And smoky mist, by virtue of the power +Given by his nature. Thence the valley, soon +As day was spent, he cover'd o'er with cloud +From Pratomagno to the mountain range, +And stretch'd the sky above, so that the air +Impregnate chang'd to water. Fell the rain, +And to the fosses came all that the land +Contain'd not; and, as mightiest streams are wont, +To the great river with such headlong sweep +Rush'd, that nought stay'd its course. My stiffen'd frame +Laid at his mouth the fell Archiano found, +And dash'd it into Arno, from my breast +Loos'ning the cross, that of myself I made +When overcome with pain. He hurl'd me on, +Along the banks and bottom of his course; +Then in his muddy spoils encircling wrapt." + +"Ah! when thou to the world shalt be return'd, +And rested after thy long road," so spake +Next the third spirit; "then remember me. +I once was Pia. Sienna gave me life, +Maremma took it from me. That he knows, +Who me with jewell'd ring had first espous'd." + + +CANTO VI + +When from their game of dice men separate, +He, who hath lost, remains in sadness fix'd, +Revolving in his mind, what luckless throws +He cast: but meanwhile all the company +Go with the other; one before him runs, +And one behind his mantle twitches, one +Fast by his side bids him remember him. +He stops not; and each one, to whom his hand +Is stretch'd, well knows he bids him stand aside; +And thus he from the press defends himself. +E'en such was I in that close-crowding throng; +And turning so my face around to all, +And promising, I 'scap'd from it with pains. + +Here of Arezzo him I saw, who fell +By Ghino's cruel arm; and him beside, +Who in his chase was swallow'd by the stream. +Here Frederic Novello, with his hand +Stretch'd forth, entreated; and of Pisa he, +Who put the good Marzuco to such proof +Of constancy. Count Orso I beheld; +And from its frame a soul dismiss'd for spite +And envy, as it said, but for no crime: +I speak of Peter de la Brosse; and here, +While she yet lives, that Lady of Brabant +Let her beware; lest for so false a deed +She herd with worse than these. When I was freed +From all those spirits, who pray'd for others' prayers +To hasten on their state of blessedness; +Straight I began: "O thou, my luminary! +It seems expressly in thy text denied, +That heaven's supreme decree can never bend +To supplication; yet with this design +Do these entreat. Can then their hope be vain, +Or is thy saying not to me reveal'd?" + +He thus to me: "Both what I write is plain, +And these deceiv'd not in their hope, if well +Thy mind consider, that the sacred height +Of judgment doth not stoop, because love's flame +In a short moment all fulfils, which he +Who sojourns here, in right should satisfy. +Besides, when I this point concluded thus, +By praying no defect could be supplied; +Because the pray'r had none access to God. +Yet in this deep suspicion rest thou not +Contented unless she assure thee so, +Who betwixt truth and mind infuses light. +I know not if thou take me right; I mean +Beatrice. Her thou shalt behold above, +Upon this mountain's crown, fair seat of joy." + +Then I: "Sir! let us mend our speed; for now +I tire not as before; and lo! the hill +Stretches its shadow far." He answer'd thus: +"Our progress with this day shall be as much +As we may now dispatch; but otherwise +Than thou supposest is the truth. For there +Thou canst not be, ere thou once more behold +Him back returning, who behind the steep +Is now so hidden, that as erst his beam +Thou dost not break. But lo! a spirit there +Stands solitary, and toward us looks: +It will instruct us in the speediest way." + +We soon approach'd it. O thou Lombard spirit! +How didst thou stand, in high abstracted mood, +Scarce moving with slow dignity thine eyes! +It spoke not aught, but let us onward pass, +Eyeing us as a lion on his watch. +But Virgil with entreaty mild advanc'd, +Requesting it to show the best ascent. +It answer to his question none return'd, +But of our country and our kind of life +Demanded. When my courteous guide began, +"Mantua," the solitary shadow quick +Rose towards us from the place in which it stood, +And cry'd, "Mantuan! I am thy countryman +Sordello." Each the other then embrac'd. + +Ah slavish Italy! thou inn of grief, +Vessel without a pilot in loud storm, +Lady no longer of fair provinces, +But brothel-house impure! this gentle spirit, +Ev'n from the Pleasant sound of his dear land +Was prompt to greet a fellow citizen +With such glad cheer; while now thy living ones +In thee abide not without war; and one +Malicious gnaws another, ay of those +Whom the same wall and the same moat contains, +Seek, wretched one! around thy sea-coasts wide; +Then homeward to thy bosom turn, and mark +If any part of the sweet peace enjoy. +What boots it, that thy reins Justinian's hand +Befitted, if thy saddle be unpress'd? +Nought doth he now but aggravate thy shame. +Ah people! thou obedient still shouldst live, +And in the saddle let thy Caesar sit, +If well thou marked'st that which God commands. + +Look how that beast to felness hath relaps'd +From having lost correction of the spur, +Since to the bridle thou hast set thine hand, +O German Albert! who abandon'st her, +That is grown savage and unmanageable, +When thou should'st clasp her flanks with forked heels. +Just judgment from the stars fall on thy blood! +And be it strange and manifest to all! +Such as may strike thy successor with dread! +For that thy sire and thou have suffer'd thus, +Through greediness of yonder realms detain'd, +The garden of the empire to run waste. +Come see the Capulets and Montagues, +The Philippeschi and Monaldi! man +Who car'st for nought! those sunk in grief, and these +With dire suspicion rack'd. Come, cruel one! +Come and behold the' oppression of the nobles, +And mark their injuries: and thou mayst see. +What safety Santafiore can supply. +Come and behold thy Rome, who calls on thee, +Desolate widow! day and night with moans: +"My Caesar, why dost thou desert my side?" +Come and behold what love among thy people: +And if no pity touches thee for us, +Come and blush for thine own report. For me, +If it be lawful, O Almighty Power, +Who wast in earth for our sakes crucified! +Are thy just eyes turn'd elsewhere? or is this +A preparation in the wond'rous depth +Of thy sage counsel made, for some good end, +Entirely from our reach of thought cut off? +So are the' Italian cities all o'erthrong'd +With tyrants, and a great Marcellus made +Of every petty factious villager. + +My Florence! thou mayst well remain unmov'd +At this digression, which affects not thee: +Thanks to thy people, who so wisely speed. +Many have justice in their heart, that long +Waiteth for counsel to direct the bow, +Or ere it dart unto its aim: but shine +Have it on their lip's edge. Many refuse +To bear the common burdens: readier thine +Answer uneall'd, and cry, "Behold I stoop!" + +Make thyself glad, for thou hast reason now, +Thou wealthy! thou at peace! thou wisdom-fraught! +Facts best witness if I speak the truth. +Athens and Lacedaemon, who of old +Enacted laws, for civil arts renown'd, +Made little progress in improving life +Tow'rds thee, who usest such nice subtlety, +That to the middle of November scarce +Reaches the thread thou in October weav'st. +How many times, within thy memory, +Customs, and laws, and coins, and offices +Have been by thee renew'd, and people chang'd! + +If thou remember'st well and can'st see clear, +Thou wilt perceive thyself like a sick wretch, +Who finds no rest upon her down, but oft +Shifting her side, short respite seeks from pain. + + + + +CANTO VII + +After their courteous greetings joyfully +Sev'n times exchang'd, Sordello backward drew +Exclaiming, "Who are ye?" "Before this mount +By spirits worthy of ascent to God +Was sought, my bones had by Octavius' care +Been buried. I am Virgil, for no sin +Depriv'd of heav'n, except for lack of faith." + +So answer'd him in few my gentle guide. + +As one, who aught before him suddenly +Beholding, whence his wonder riseth, cries +"It is yet is not," wav'ring in belief; +Such he appear'd; then downward bent his eyes, +And drawing near with reverential step, +Caught him, where of mean estate might clasp +His lord. "Glory of Latium!" he exclaim'd, +"In whom our tongue its utmost power display'd! +Boast of my honor'd birth-place! what desert +Of mine, what favour rather undeserv'd, +Shows thee to me? If I to hear that voice +Am worthy, say if from below thou com'st +And from what cloister's pale?"--"Through every orb +Of that sad region," he reply'd, "thus far +Am I arriv'd, by heav'nly influence led +And with such aid I come. There is a place +There underneath, not made by torments sad, +But by dun shades alone; where mourning's voice +Sounds not of anguish sharp, but breathes in sighs. + +"There I with little innocents abide, +Who by death's fangs were bitten, ere exempt +From human taint. There I with those abide, +Who the three holy virtues put not on, +But understood the rest, and without blame +Follow'd them all. But if thou know'st and canst, +Direct us, how we soonest may arrive, +Where Purgatory its true beginning takes." + +He answer'd thus: "We have no certain place +Assign'd us: upwards I may go or round, +Far as I can, I join thee for thy guide. +But thou beholdest now how day declines: +And upwards to proceed by night, our power +Excels: therefore it may be well to choose +A place of pleasant sojourn. To the right +Some spirits sit apart retir'd. If thou +Consentest, I to these will lead thy steps: +And thou wilt know them, not without delight." + +"How chances this?" was answer'd; "who so wish'd +To ascend by night, would he be thence debarr'd +By other, or through his own weakness fail?" + +The good Sordello then, along the ground +Trailing his finger, spoke: "Only this line +Thou shalt not overpass, soon as the sun +Hath disappear'd; not that aught else impedes +Thy going upwards, save the shades of night. +These with the wont of power perplex the will. +With them thou haply mightst return beneath, +Or to and fro around the mountain's side +Wander, while day is in the horizon shut." + +My master straight, as wond'ring at his speech, +Exclaim'd: "Then lead us quickly, where thou sayst, +That, while we stay, we may enjoy delight." + +A little space we were remov'd from thence, +When I perceiv'd the mountain hollow'd out. +Ev'n as large valleys hollow'd out on earth, + +"That way," the' escorting spirit cried, "we go, +Where in a bosom the high bank recedes: +And thou await renewal of the day." + +Betwixt the steep and plain a crooked path +Led us traverse into the ridge's side, +Where more than half the sloping edge expires. +Refulgent gold, and silver thrice refin'd, +And scarlet grain and ceruse, Indian wood +Of lucid dye serene, fresh emeralds +But newly broken, by the herbs and flowers +Plac'd in that fair recess, in color all +Had been surpass'd, as great surpasses less. +Nor nature only there lavish'd her hues, +But of the sweetness of a thousand smells +A rare and undistinguish'd fragrance made. + +"Salve Regina," on the grass and flowers +Here chanting I beheld those spirits sit +Who not beyond the valley could be seen. + +"Before the west'ring sun sink to his bed," +Began the Mantuan, who our steps had turn'd, + +"'Mid those desires not that I lead ye on. +For from this eminence ye shall discern +Better the acts and visages of all, +Than in the nether vale among them mix'd. +He, who sits high above the rest, and seems +To have neglected that he should have done, +And to the others' song moves not his lip, +The Emperor Rodolph call, who might have heal'd +The wounds whereof fair Italy hath died, +So that by others she revives but slowly, +He, who with kindly visage comforts him, +Sway'd in that country, where the water springs, +That Moldaw's river to the Elbe, and Elbe +Rolls to the ocean: Ottocar his name: +Who in his swaddling clothes was of more worth +Than Winceslaus his son, a bearded man, +Pamper'd with rank luxuriousness and ease. +And that one with the nose depress, who close +In counsel seems with him of gentle look, +Flying expir'd, with'ring the lily's flower. +Look there how he doth knock against his breast! +The other ye behold, who for his cheek +Makes of one hand a couch, with frequent sighs. +They are the father and the father-in-law +Of Gallia's bane: his vicious life they know +And foul; thence comes the grief that rends them thus. + +"He, so robust of limb, who measure keeps +In song, with him of feature prominent, +With ev'ry virtue bore his girdle brac'd. +And if that stripling who behinds him sits, +King after him had liv'd, his virtue then +From vessel to like vessel had been pour'd; +Which may not of the other heirs be said. +By James and Frederick his realms are held; +Neither the better heritage obtains. +Rarely into the branches of the tree +Doth human worth mount up; and so ordains +He who bestows it, that as his free gift +It may be call'd. To Charles my words apply +No less than to his brother in the song; +Which Pouille and Provence now with grief confess. +So much that plant degenerates from its seed, +As more than Beatrice and Margaret +Costanza still boasts of her valorous spouse. + +"Behold the king of simple life and plain, +Harry of England, sitting there alone: +He through his branches better issue spreads. + +"That one, who on the ground beneath the rest +Sits lowest, yet his gaze directs aloft, +Us William, that brave Marquis, for whose cause +The deed of Alexandria and his war +Makes Conferrat and Canavese weep." + + + + +CANTO VIII + +Now was the hour that wakens fond desire +In men at sea, and melts their thoughtful heart, +Who in the morn have bid sweet friends farewell, +And pilgrim newly on his road with love +Thrills, if he hear the vesper bell from far, +That seems to mourn for the expiring day: +When I, no longer taking heed to hear +Began, with wonder, from those spirits to mark +One risen from its seat, which with its hand +Audience implor'd. Both palms it join'd and rais'd, +Fixing its steadfast gaze towards the east, +As telling God, "I care for naught beside." + +"Te Lucis Ante," so devoutly then +Came from its lip, and in so soft a strain, +That all my sense in ravishment was lost. +And the rest after, softly and devout, +Follow'd through all the hymn, with upward gaze +Directed to the bright supernal wheels. + +Here, reader! for the truth makes thine eyes keen: +For of so subtle texture is this veil, +That thou with ease mayst pass it through unmark'd. + +I saw that gentle band silently next +Look up, as if in expectation held, +Pale and in lowly guise; and from on high +I saw forth issuing descend beneath +Two angels with two flame-illumin'd swords, +Broken and mutilated at their points. +Green as the tender leaves but newly born, +Their vesture was, the which by wings as green +Beaten, they drew behind them, fann'd in air. +A little over us one took his stand, +The other lighted on the' Opposing hill, +So that the troop were in the midst contain'd. + +Well I descried the whiteness on their heads; +But in their visages the dazzled eye +Was lost, as faculty that by too much +Is overpower'd. "From Mary's bosom both +Are come," exclaim'd Sordello, "as a guard +Over the vale, ganst him, who hither tends, +The serpent." Whence, not knowing by which path +He came, I turn'd me round, and closely press'd, +All frozen, to my leader's trusted side. + +Sordello paus'd not: "To the valley now +(For it is time) let us descend; and hold +Converse with those great shadows: haply much +Their sight may please ye." Only three steps down +Methinks I measur'd, ere I was beneath, +And noted one who look'd as with desire +To know me. Time was now that air arrow dim; +Yet not so dim, that 'twixt his eyes and mine +It clear'd not up what was conceal'd before. +Mutually tow'rds each other we advanc'd. +Nino, thou courteous judge! what joy I felt, +When I perceiv'd thou wert not with the bad! + +No salutation kind on either part +Was left unsaid. He then inquir'd: "How long +Since thou arrived'st at the mountain's foot, +Over the distant waves?"--"O!" answer'd I, +"Through the sad seats of woe this morn I came, +And still in my first life, thus journeying on, +The other strive to gain." Soon as they heard +My words, he and Sordello backward drew, +As suddenly amaz'd. To Virgil one, +The other to a spirit turn'd, who near +Was seated, crying: "Conrad! up with speed: +Come, see what of his grace high God hath will'd." +Then turning round to me: "By that rare mark +Of honour which thou ow'st to him, who hides +So deeply his first cause, it hath no ford, +When thou shalt be beyond the vast of waves. +Tell my Giovanna, that for me she call +There, where reply to innocence is made. +Her mother, I believe, loves me no more; +Since she has chang'd the white and wimpled folds, +Which she is doom'd once more with grief to wish. +By her it easily may be perceiv'd, +How long in women lasts the flame of love, +If sight and touch do not relume it oft. +For her so fair a burial will not make +The viper which calls Milan to the field, +As had been made by shrill Gallura's bird." + +He spoke, and in his visage took the stamp +Of that right seal, which with due temperature +Glows in the bosom. My insatiate eyes +Meanwhile to heav'n had travel'd, even there +Where the bright stars are slowest, as a wheel +Nearest the axle; when my guide inquir'd: +"What there aloft, my son, has caught thy gaze?" + +I answer'd: "The three torches, with which here +The pole is all on fire." He then to me: +"The four resplendent stars, thou saw'st this morn +Are there beneath, and these ris'n in their stead." + +While yet he spoke. Sordello to himself +Drew him, and cry'd: "Lo there our enemy!" +And with his hand pointed that way to look. + +Along the side, where barrier none arose +Around the little vale, a serpent lay, +Such haply as gave Eve the bitter food. +Between the grass and flowers, the evil snake +Came on, reverting oft his lifted head; +And, as a beast that smoothes its polish'd coat, +Licking his hack. I saw not, nor can tell, +How those celestial falcons from their seat +Mov'd, but in motion each one well descried, +Hearing the air cut by their verdant plumes. +The serpent fled; and to their stations back +The angels up return'd with equal flight. + +The Spirit (who to Nino, when he call'd, +Had come), from viewing me with fixed ken, +Through all that conflict, loosen'd not his sight. + +"So may the lamp, which leads thee up on high, +Find, in thy destin'd lot, of wax so much, +As may suffice thee to the enamel's height." +It thus began: "If any certain news +Of Valdimagra and the neighbour part +Thou know'st, tell me, who once was mighty there +They call'd me Conrad Malaspina, not +That old one, but from him I sprang. The love +I bore my people is now here refin'd." + +"In your dominions," I answer'd, "ne'er was I. +But through all Europe where do those men dwell, +To whom their glory is not manifest? +The fame, that honours your illustrious house, +Proclaims the nobles and proclaims the land; +So that he knows it who was never there. +I swear to you, so may my upward route +Prosper! your honour'd nation not impairs +The value of her coffer and her sword. +Nature and use give her such privilege, +That while the world is twisted from his course +By a bad head, she only walks aright, +And has the evil way in scorn." He then: +"Now pass thee on: sev'n times the tired sun +Revisits not the couch, which with four feet +The forked Aries covers, ere that kind +Opinion shall be nail'd into thy brain +With stronger nails than other's speech can drive, +If the sure course of judgment be not stay'd." + + + + +CANTO IX + +Now the fair consort of Tithonus old, +Arisen from her mate's beloved arms, +Look'd palely o'er the eastern cliff: her brow, +Lucent with jewels, glitter'd, set in sign +Of that chill animal, who with his train +Smites fearful nations: and where then we were, +Two steps of her ascent the night had past, +And now the third was closing up its wing, +When I, who had so much of Adam with me, +Sank down upon the grass, o'ercome with sleep, +There where all five were seated. In that hour, +When near the dawn the swallow her sad lay, +Rememb'ring haply ancient grief, renews, +And with our minds more wand'rers from the flesh, +And less by thought restrain'd are, as 't were, full +Of holy divination in their dreams, +Then in a vision did I seem to view +A golden-feather'd eagle in the sky, +With open wings, and hov'ring for descent, +And I was in that place, methought, from whence +Young Ganymede, from his associates 'reft, +Was snatch'd aloft to the high consistory. +"Perhaps," thought I within me, "here alone +He strikes his quarry, and elsewhere disdains +To pounce upon the prey." Therewith, it seem'd, +A little wheeling in his airy tour +Terrible as the lightning rush'd he down, +And snatch'd me upward even to the fire. + +There both, I thought, the eagle and myself +Did burn; and so intense th' imagin'd flames, +That needs my sleep was broken off. As erst +Achilles shook himself, and round him roll'd +His waken'd eyeballs wond'ring where he was, +Whenas his mother had from Chiron fled +To Scyros, with him sleeping in her arms; +E'en thus I shook me, soon as from my face +The slumber parted, turning deadly pale, +Like one ice-struck with dread. Solo at my side +My comfort stood: and the bright sun was now +More than two hours aloft: and to the sea +My looks were turn'd. "Fear not," my master cried, +"Assur'd we are at happy point. Thy strength +Shrink not, but rise dilated. Thou art come +To Purgatory now. Lo! there the cliff +That circling bounds it! Lo! the entrance there, +Where it doth seem disparted! re the dawn +Usher'd the daylight, when thy wearied soul +Slept in thee, o'er the flowery vale beneath +A lady came, and thus bespake me: "I +Am Lucia. Suffer me to take this man, +Who slumbers. Easier so his way shall speed." +Sordello and the other gentle shapes +Tarrying, she bare thee up: and, as day shone, +This summit reach'd: and I pursued her steps. +Here did she place thee. First her lovely eyes +That open entrance show'd me; then at once +She vanish'd with thy sleep. Like one, whose doubts +Are chas'd by certainty, and terror turn'd +To comfort on discovery of the truth, +Such was the change in me: and as my guide +Beheld me fearless, up along the cliff +He mov'd, and I behind him, towards the height. + +Reader! thou markest how my theme doth rise, +Nor wonder therefore, if more artfully +I prop the structure! nearer now we drew, +Arriv'd' whence in that part, where first a breach +As of a wall appear'd, I could descry +A portal, and three steps beneath, that led +For inlet there, of different colour each, +And one who watch'd, but spake not yet a word. +As more and more mine eye did stretch its view, +I mark'd him seated on the highest step, +In visage such, as past my power to bear. + +Grasp'd in his hand a naked sword, glanc'd back +The rays so toward me, that I oft in vain +My sight directed. "Speak from whence ye stand:" +He cried: "What would ye? Where is your escort? +Take heed your coming upward harm ye not." + +"A heavenly dame, not skilless of these things," +Replied the' instructor, "told us, even now, +"Pass that way: here the gate is." --"And may she +Befriending prosper your ascent," resum'd +The courteous keeper of the gate: "Come then +Before our steps." We straightway thither came. + +The lowest stair was marble white so smooth +And polish'd, that therein my mirror'd form +Distinct I saw. The next of hue more dark +Than sablest grain, a rough and singed block, +Crack'd lengthwise and across. The third, that lay +Massy above, seem'd porphyry, that flam'd +Red as the life-blood spouting from a vein. +On this God's angel either foot sustain'd, +Upon the threshold seated, which appear'd +A rock of diamond. Up the trinal steps +My leader cheerily drew me. "Ask," said he, + +"With humble heart, that he unbar the bolt." + +Piously at his holy feet devolv'd +I cast me, praying him for pity's sake +That he would open to me: but first fell +Thrice on my bosom prostrate. Seven times +The letter, that denotes the inward stain, +He on my forehead with the blunted point +Of his drawn sword inscrib'd. And "Look," he cried, +"When enter'd, that thou wash these scars away." + +Ashes, or earth ta'en dry out of the ground, +Were of one colour with the robe he wore. +From underneath that vestment forth he drew +Two keys of metal twain: the one was gold, +Its fellow silver. With the pallid first, +And next the burnish'd, he so ply'd the gate, +As to content me well. "Whenever one +Faileth of these, that in the keyhole straight +It turn not, to this alley then expect +Access in vain." Such were the words he spake. +"One is more precious: but the other needs +Skill and sagacity, large share of each, +Ere its good task to disengage the knot +Be worthily perform'd. From Peter these +I hold, of him instructed, that I err +Rather in opening than in keeping fast; +So but the suppliant at my feet implore." + +Then of that hallow'd gate he thrust the door, +Exclaiming, "Enter, but this warning hear: +He forth again departs who looks behind." + +As in the hinges of that sacred ward +The swivels turn'd, sonorous metal strong, +Harsh was the grating; nor so surlily +Roar'd the Tarpeian, when by force bereft +Of good Metellus, thenceforth from his loss +To leanness doom'd. Attentively I turn'd, +List'ning the thunder, that first issued forth; +And "We praise thee, O God," methought I heard +In accents blended with sweet melody. +The strains came o'er mine ear, e'en as the sound +Of choral voices, that in solemn chant +With organ mingle, and, now high and clear, +Come swelling, now float indistinct away. + + + + +CANTO X + +When we had passed the threshold of the gate +(Which the soul's ill affection doth disuse, +Making the crooked seem the straighter path), +I heard its closing sound. Had mine eyes turn'd, +For that offence what plea might have avail'd? + +We mounted up the riven rock, that wound +On either side alternate, as the wave +Flies and advances. "Here some little art +Behooves us," said my leader, "that our steps +Observe the varying flexure of the path." + +Thus we so slowly sped, that with cleft orb +The moon once more o'erhangs her wat'ry couch, +Ere we that strait have threaded. But when free +We came and open, where the mount above +One solid mass retires, I spent, with toil, +And both, uncertain of the way, we stood, +Upon a plain more lonesome, than the roads +That traverse desert wilds. From whence the brink +Borders upon vacuity, to foot +Of the steep bank, that rises still, the space +Had measur'd thrice the stature of a man: +And, distant as mine eye could wing its flight, +To leftward now and now to right dispatch'd, +That cornice equal in extent appear'd. + +Not yet our feet had on that summit mov'd, +When I discover'd that the bank around, +Whose proud uprising all ascent denied, +Was marble white, and so exactly wrought +With quaintest sculpture, that not there alone +Had Polycletus, but e'en nature's self +Been sham'd. The angel who came down to earth +With tidings of the peace so many years +Wept for in vain, that op'd the heavenly gates +From their long interdict, before us seem'd, +In a sweet act, so sculptur'd to the life, +He look'd no silent image. One had sworn +He had said, "Hail!" for she was imag'd there, +By whom the key did open to God's love, +And in her act as sensibly impress +That word, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord," +As figure seal'd on wax. "Fix not thy mind +On one place only," said the guide belov'd, +Who had me near him on that part where lies +The heart of man. My sight forthwith I turn'd +And mark'd, behind the virgin mother's form, +Upon that side, where he, that mov'd me, stood, +Another story graven on the rock. + +I passed athwart the bard, and drew me near, +That it might stand more aptly for my view. +There in the self-same marble were engrav'd +The cart and kine, drawing the sacred ark, +That from unbidden office awes mankind. +Before it came much people; and the whole +Parted in seven quires. One sense cried, "Nay," +Another, "Yes, they sing." Like doubt arose +Betwixt the eye and smell, from the curl'd fume +Of incense breathing up the well-wrought toil. +Preceding the blest vessel, onward came +With light dance leaping, girt in humble guise, +Sweet Israel's harper: in that hap he seem'd +Less and yet more than kingly. Opposite, +At a great palace, from the lattice forth +Look'd Michol, like a lady full of scorn +And sorrow. To behold the tablet next, +Which at the hack of Michol whitely shone, +I mov'd me. There was storied on the rock +The' exalted glory of the Roman prince, +Whose mighty worth mov'd Gregory to earn +His mighty conquest, Trajan th' Emperor. +A widow at his bridle stood, attir'd +In tears and mourning. Round about them troop'd +Full throng of knights, and overhead in gold +The eagles floated, struggling with the wind. + +The wretch appear'd amid all these to say: +"Grant vengeance, sire! for, woe beshrew this heart +My son is murder'd." He replying seem'd; + +"Wait now till I return." And she, as one +Made hasty by her grief; "O sire, if thou +Dost not return?"--"Where I am, who then is, +May right thee."--"What to thee is other's good, +If thou neglect thy own?"--"Now comfort thee," +At length he answers. "It beseemeth well +My duty be perform'd, ere I move hence: +So justice wills; and pity bids me stay." + +He, whose ken nothing new surveys, produc'd +That visible speaking, new to us and strange +The like not found on earth. Fondly I gaz'd +Upon those patterns of meek humbleness, +Shapes yet more precious for their artist's sake, +When "Lo," the poet whisper'd, "where this way +(But slack their pace), a multitude advance. +These to the lofty steps shall guide us on." + +Mine eyes, though bent on view of novel sights +Their lov'd allurement, were not slow to turn. + +Reader! would not that amaz'd thou miss +Of thy good purpose, hearing how just God +Decrees our debts be cancel'd. Ponder not +The form of suff'ring. Think on what succeeds, +Think that at worst beyond the mighty doom +It cannot pass. "Instructor," I began, +"What I see hither tending, bears no trace +Of human semblance, nor of aught beside +That my foil'd sight can guess." He answering thus: +"So courb'd to earth, beneath their heavy teems +Of torment stoop they, that mine eye at first +Struggled as thine. But look intently thither, +An disentangle with thy lab'ring view, +What underneath those stones approacheth: now, +E'en now, mayst thou discern the pangs of each." + +Christians and proud! poor and wretched ones! +That feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust +Upon unstaid perverseness! now ye not +That we are worms, yet made at last to form +The winged insect, imp'd with angel plumes +That to heaven's justice unobstructed soars? +Why buoy ye up aloft your unfleg'd souls? +Abortive then and shapeless ye remain, +Like the untimely embryon of a worm! + +As, to support incumbent floor or roof, +For corbel is a figure sometimes seen, +That crumples up its knees unto its breast, +With the feign'd posture stirring ruth unfeign'd +In the beholder's fancy; so I saw +These fashion'd, when I noted well their guise. + +Each, as his back was laden, came indeed +Or more or less contract; but it appear'd +As he, who show'd most patience in his look, +Wailing exclaim'd: "I can endure no more." + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Vision of Purgatory, Part 2, by Dante Alighieri +Translated By The Rev. 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