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+Project Gutenberg's The Vision of Purgatory, Part 2, by Dante Alighieri
+Translated By The Rev. H. F. Cary, Illustrated by Gustave Dore
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+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
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+Character set encoding: ASCII
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VISION OF PURGATORY, PART 2 ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+
+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."
+
+
+
+
+
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