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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 5 + +Author: Dante Alighieri + +Release Date: August 5, 2004 [EBook #8794] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VISION OF PURGATORY, PART 5 *** + + + + +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 5</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="#26">Canto 26</a><br> +<a href="#27">Canto 27</a><br> +<a href="#28">Canto 28</a><br> +<a href="#29">Canto 29</a><br> +<a href="#30">Canto 30</a><br> +<a href="#31">Canto 31</a><br> +<a href="#32">Canto 32</a><br> +<a href="#33">Canto 33</a><br> + + + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<table summary="Purgatory"> +<tr><td> +<br><br> + + + + + + +<a name="26"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO XXVI</h2> +<br> + +<p>While singly thus along the rim we walk'd,<br> +Oft the good master warn'd me: "Look thou well.<br> +Avail it that I caution thee." The sun<br> +Now all the western clime irradiate chang'd<br> +From azure tinct to white; and, as I pass'd,<br> +My passing shadow made the umber'd flame<br> +Burn ruddier. At so strange a sight I mark'd<br> +That many a spirit marvel'd on his way.<br> +<br>This bred occasion first to speak of me,<br> +"He seems," said they, "no insubstantial frame:"<br> +Then to obtain what certainty they might,<br> +Stretch'd towards me, careful not to overpass<br> +The burning pale. "O thou, who followest<br> +The others, haply not more slow than they,<br> +But mov'd by rev'rence, answer me, who burn<br> +In thirst and fire: nor I alone, but these<br> +All for thine answer do more thirst, than doth<br> +Indian or Aethiop for the cooling stream.<br> +Tell us, how is it that thou mak'st thyself<br> +A wall against the sun, as thou not yet<br> +Into th' inextricable toils of death<br> +Hadst enter'd?" Thus spake one, and I had straight<br> +Declar'd me, if attention had not turn'd<br> +To new appearance. Meeting these, there came,<br> +Midway the burning path, a crowd, on whom<br> +Earnestly gazing, from each part I view<br> +The shadows all press forward, sev'rally<br> +Each snatch a hasty kiss, and then away.<br> +E'en so the emmets, 'mid their dusky troops,<br> +Peer closely one at other, to spy out<br> +Their mutual road perchance, and how they thrive.<br> +<br>That friendly greeting parted, ere dispatch<br> +Of the first onward step, from either tribe<br> +Loud clamour rises: those, who newly come,<br> +Shout "Sodom and Gomorrah!" these, "The cow<br> +Pasiphae enter'd, that the beast she woo'd<br> +Might rush unto her luxury." Then as cranes,<br> +That part towards the Riphaean mountains fly,<br> +Part towards the Lybic sands, these to avoid<br> +The ice, and those the sun; so hasteth off<br> +One crowd, advances th' other; and resume<br> +Their first song weeping, and their several shout.<br> +<br>Again drew near my side the very same,<br> +Who had erewhile besought me, and their looks<br> +Mark'd eagerness to listen. I, who twice<br> +Their will had noted, spake: "O spirits secure,<br> +Whene'er the time may be, of peaceful end!<br> +My limbs, nor crude, nor in mature old age,<br> +Have I left yonder: here they bear me, fed<br> +With blood, and sinew-strung. That I no more<br> +May live in blindness, hence I tend aloft.<br> +There is a dame on high, who wind for us<br> +This grace, by which my mortal through your realm<br> +I bear. But may your utmost wish soon meet<br> +Such full fruition, that the orb of heaven,<br> +Fullest of love, and of most ample space,<br> +Receive you, as ye tell (upon my page<br> +Henceforth to stand recorded) who ye are,<br> +And what this multitude, that at your backs<br> +Have past behind us." As one, mountain-bred,<br> +Rugged and clownish, if some city's walls<br> +He chance to enter, round him stares agape,<br> +Confounded and struck dumb; e'en such appear'd<br> +Each spirit. But when rid of that amaze,<br> +(Not long the inmate of a noble heart)<br> +He, who before had question'd, thus resum'd:<br> +"O blessed, who, for death preparing, tak'st<br> +Experience of our limits, in thy bark!<br> +Their crime, who not with us proceed, was that,<br> +For which, as he did triumph, Caesar heard<br> +The snout of 'queen,' to taunt him. Hence their cry<br> +Of 'Sodom,' as they parted, to rebuke<br> +Themselves, and aid the burning by their shame.<br> +Our sinning was Hermaphrodite: but we,<br> +Because the law of human kind we broke,<br> +Following like beasts our vile concupiscence,<br> +Hence parting from them, to our own disgrace<br> +Record the name of her, by whom the beast<br> +In bestial tire was acted. Now our deeds<br> +Thou know'st, and how we sinn'd. If thou by name<br> +Wouldst haply know us, time permits not now<br> +To tell so much, nor can I. Of myself<br> +Learn what thou wishest. Guinicelli I,<br> +Who having truly sorrow'd ere my last,<br> +Already cleanse me." With such pious joy,<br> +As the two sons upon their mother gaz'd<br> +From sad Lycurgus rescu'd, such my joy<br> +(Save that I more represt it) when I heard<br> +From his own lips the name of him pronounc'd,<br> +Who was a father to me, and to those<br> +My betters, who have ever us'd the sweet<br> +And pleasant rhymes of love. So nought I heard<br> +Nor spake, but long time thoughtfully I went,<br> +Gazing on him; and, only for the fire,<br> +Approach'd not nearer. When my eyes were fed<br> +By looking on him, with such solemn pledge,<br> +As forces credence, I devoted me<br> +Unto his service wholly. In reply<br> +He thus bespake me: "What from thee I hear<br> +Is grav'd so deeply on my mind, the waves<br> +Of Lethe shall not wash it off, nor make<br> +A whit less lively. But as now thy oath<br> +Has seal'd the truth, declare what cause impels<br> +That love, which both thy looks and speech bewray."<br> +<br>"Those dulcet lays," I answer'd, "which, as long<br> +As of our tongue the beauty does not fade,<br> +Shall make us love the very ink that trac'd them."<br> +<br>"Brother!" he cried, and pointed at a shade<br> +Before him, "there is one, whose mother speech<br> +Doth owe to him a fairer ornament.<br> +He in love ditties and the tales of prose<br> +Without a rival stands, and lets the fools<br> +Talk on, who think the songster of Limoges<br> +O'ertops him. Rumour and the popular voice<br> +They look to more than truth, and so confirm<br> +Opinion, ere by art or reason taught.<br> +Thus many of the elder time cried up<br> +Guittone, giving him the prize, till truth<br> +By strength of numbers vanquish'd. If thou own<br> +So ample privilege, as to have gain'd<br> +Free entrance to the cloister, whereof Christ<br> +Is Abbot of the college, say to him<br> +One paternoster for me, far as needs<br> +For dwellers in this world, where power to sin<br> +No longer tempts us." Haply to make way<br> +For one, that follow'd next, when that was said,<br> +He vanish'd through the fire, as through the wave<br> +A fish, that glances diving to the deep.<br> +<br>I, to the spirit he had shown me, drew<br> +A little onward, and besought his name,<br> +For which my heart, I said, kept gracious room.<br> +He frankly thus began: "Thy courtesy<br> +So wins on me, I have nor power nor will<br> +To hide me. I am Arnault; and with songs,<br> +Sorely lamenting for my folly past,<br> +Thorough this ford of fire I wade, and see<br> +The day, I hope for, smiling in my view.<br> +I pray ye by the worth that guides ye up<br> +Unto the summit of the scale, in time<br> +Remember ye my suff'rings." With such words<br> +He disappear'd in the refining flame.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="27"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO XXVII</h2> +<br> + +<p>Now was the sun so station'd, as when first<br> +His early radiance quivers on the heights,<br> +Where stream'd his Maker's blood, while Libra hangs<br> +Above Hesperian Ebro, and new fires<br> +Meridian flash on Ganges' yellow tide.<br> +<br>So day was sinking, when the' angel of God<br> +Appear'd before us. Joy was in his mien.<br> +Forth of the flame he stood upon the brink,<br> +And with a voice, whose lively clearness far<br> +Surpass'd our human, "Blessed are the pure<br> +In heart," he Sang: then near him as we came,<br> +"Go ye not further, holy spirits!" he cried,<br> +"Ere the fire pierce you: enter in; and list<br> +Attentive to the song ye hear from thence."<br> +<br>I, when I heard his saying, was as one<br> +Laid in the grave. My hands together clasp'd,<br> +And upward stretching, on the fire I look'd,<br> +And busy fancy conjur'd up the forms<br> +Erewhile beheld alive consum'd in flames.<br> +<br>Th' escorting spirits turn'd with gentle looks<br> +Toward me, and the Mantuan spake: "My son,<br> +Here torment thou mayst feel, but canst not death.<br> +Remember thee, remember thee, if I<br> +Safe e'en on Geryon brought thee: now I come<br> +More near to God, wilt thou not trust me now?<br> +Of this be sure: though in its womb that flame<br> +A thousand years contain'd thee, from thy head<br> +No hair should perish. If thou doubt my truth,<br> +Approach, and with thy hands thy vesture's hem<br> +Stretch forth, and for thyself confirm belief.<br> +Lay now all fear, O lay all fear aside.<br> +Turn hither, and come onward undismay'd."<br> +I still, though conscience urg'd' no step advanc'd.<br> +<br>When still he saw me fix'd and obstinate,<br> +Somewhat disturb'd he cried: "Mark now, my son,<br> +From Beatrice thou art by this wall<br> +Divided." As at Thisbe's name the eye<br> +Of Pyramus was open'd (when life ebb'd<br> +Fast from his veins), and took one parting glance,<br> +While vermeil dyed the mulberry; thus I turn'd<br> +To my sage guide, relenting, when I heard<br> +The name, that springs forever in my breast.<br> +<br>He shook his forehead; and, "How long," he said,<br> +"Linger we now?" then smil'd, as one would smile<br> +Upon a child, that eyes the fruit and yields.<br> +Into the fire before me then he walk'd;<br> +And Statius, who erewhile no little space<br> +Had parted us, he pray'd to come behind.<br> +<br>I would have cast me into molten glass<br> +To cool me, when I enter'd; so intense<br> +Rag'd the conflagrant mass. The sire belov'd,<br> +To comfort me, as he proceeded, still<br> +Of Beatrice talk'd. "Her eyes," saith he,<br> +"E'en now I seem to view." From the other side<br> +A voice, that sang, did guide us, and the voice<br> +Following, with heedful ear, we issued forth,<br> +There where the path led upward. "Come," we heard,<br> +"Come, blessed of my Father." Such the sounds,<br> +That hail'd us from within a light, which shone<br> +So radiant, I could not endure the view.<br> +"The sun," it added, "hastes: and evening comes.<br> +Delay not: ere the western sky is hung<br> +With blackness, strive ye for the pass." Our way<br> +Upright within the rock arose, and fac'd<br> +Such part of heav'n, that from before my steps<br> +The beams were shrouded of the sinking sun.<br> +<br>Nor many stairs were overpass, when now<br> +By fading of the shadow we perceiv'd<br> +The sun behind us couch'd: and ere one face<br> +Of darkness o'er its measureless expanse<br> +Involv'd th' horizon, and the night her lot<br> +Held individual, each of us had made<br> +A stair his pallet: not that will, but power,<br> +Had fail'd us, by the nature of that mount<br> +Forbidden further travel. As the goats,<br> +That late have skipp'd and wanton'd rapidly<br> +Upon the craggy cliffs, ere they had ta'en<br> +Their supper on the herb, now silent lie<br> +And ruminate beneath the umbrage brown,<br> +While noonday rages; and the goatherd leans<br> +Upon his staff, and leaning watches them:<br> +And as the swain, that lodges out all night<br> +In quiet by his flock, lest beast of prey<br> +Disperse them; even so all three abode,<br> +I as a goat and as the shepherds they,<br> +Close pent on either side by shelving rock.<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/27-97.jpg"><img alt="27-97th.jpg (40K)" src="images/27-97th.jpg" height="456" width="433"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br>A little glimpse of sky was seen above;<br> +Yet by that little I beheld the stars<br> +In magnitude and rustle shining forth<br> +With more than wonted glory. As I lay,<br> +Gazing on them, and in that fit of musing,<br> +Sleep overcame me, sleep, that bringeth oft<br> +Tidings of future hap. About the hour,<br> +As I believe, when Venus from the east<br> +First lighten'd on the mountain, she whose orb<br> +Seems always glowing with the fire of love,<br> +A lady young and beautiful, I dream'd,<br> +Was passing o'er a lea; and, as she came,<br> +Methought I saw her ever and anon<br> +Bending to cull the flowers; and thus she sang:<br> +"Know ye, whoever of my name would ask,<br> +That I am Leah: for my brow to weave<br> +A garland, these fair hands unwearied ply.<br> +To please me at the crystal mirror, here<br> +I deck me. But my sister Rachel, she<br> +Before her glass abides the livelong day,<br> +Her radiant eyes beholding, charm'd no less,<br> +Than I with this delightful task. Her joy<br> +In contemplation, as in labour mine."<br> +<br>And now as glimm'ring dawn appear'd, that breaks<br> +More welcome to the pilgrim still, as he<br> +Sojourns less distant on his homeward way,<br> +Darkness from all sides fled, and with it fled<br> +My slumber; whence I rose and saw my guide<br> +Already risen. "That delicious fruit,<br> +Which through so many a branch the zealous care<br> +Of mortals roams in quest of, shall this day<br> +Appease thy hunger." Such the words I heard<br> +From Virgil's lip; and never greeting heard<br> +So pleasant as the sounds. Within me straight<br> +Desire so grew upon desire to mount,<br> +Thenceforward at each step I felt the wings<br> +Increasing for my flight. When we had run<br> +O'er all the ladder to its topmost round,<br> +As there we stood, on me the Mantuan fix'd<br> +His eyes, and thus he spake: "Both fires, my son,<br> +The temporal and eternal, thou hast seen,<br> +And art arriv'd, where of itself my ken<br> +No further reaches. I with skill and art<br> +Thus far have drawn thee. Now thy pleasure take<br> +For guide. Thou hast o'ercome the steeper way,<br> +O'ercome the straighter. Lo! the sun, that darts<br> +His beam upon thy forehead! lo! the herb,<br> +The arboreta and flowers, which of itself<br> +This land pours forth profuse! Till those bright eyes<br> +With gladness come, which, weeping, made me haste<br> +To succour thee, thou mayst or seat thee down,<br> +Or wander where thou wilt. Expect no more<br> +Sanction of warning voice or sign from me,<br> +Free of thy own arbitrement to choose,<br> +Discreet, judicious. To distrust thy sense<br> +Were henceforth error. I invest thee then<br> +With crown and mitre, sovereign o'er thyself."</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="28"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO XXVIII</h2> +<br> + +<p>Through that celestial forest, whose thick shade<br> +With lively greenness the new-springing day<br> +Attemper'd, eager now to roam, and search<br> +Its limits round, forthwith I left the bank,<br> +Along the champain leisurely my way<br> +Pursuing, o'er the ground, that on all sides<br> +Delicious odour breath'd. A pleasant air,<br> +That intermitted never, never veer'd,<br> +Smote on my temples, gently, as a wind<br> +Of softest influence: at which the sprays,<br> +Obedient all, lean'd trembling to that part<br> +Where first the holy mountain casts his shade,<br> +Yet were not so disorder'd, but that still<br> +Upon their top the feather'd quiristers<br> +Applied their wonted art, and with full joy<br> +Welcom'd those hours of prime, and warbled shrill<br> +Amid the leaves, that to their jocund lays<br> +inept tenor; even as from branch to branch,<br> +Along the piney forests on the shore<br> +Of Chiassi, rolls the gath'ring melody,<br> +When Eolus hath from his cavern loos'd<br> +The dripping south. Already had my steps,<br> +Though slow, so far into that ancient wood<br> +Transported me, I could not ken the place<br> +Where I had enter'd, when behold! my path<br> +Was bounded by a rill, which to the left<br> +With little rippling waters bent the grass,<br> +That issued from its brink. On earth no wave<br> +How clean soe'er, that would not seem to have<br> +Some mixture in itself, compar'd with this,<br> +Transpicuous, clear; yet darkly on it roll'd,<br> +Darkly beneath perpetual gloom, which ne'er<br> +Admits or sun or moon light there to shine.<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/28-22.jpg"><img alt="28-22th.jpg (30K)" src="images/28-22th.jpg" height="476" width="432"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br>My feet advanc'd not; but my wond'ring eyes<br> +Pass'd onward, o'er the streamlet, to survey<br> +The tender May-bloom, flush'd through many a hue,<br> +In prodigal variety: and there,<br> +As object, rising suddenly to view,<br> +That from our bosom every thought beside<br> +With the rare marvel chases, I beheld<br> +A lady all alone, who, singing, went,<br> +And culling flower from flower, wherewith her way<br> +Was all o'er painted. "Lady beautiful!<br> +Thou, who (if looks, that use to speak the heart,<br> +Are worthy of our trust), with love's own beam<br> +Dost warm thee," thus to her my speech I fram'd:<br> +"Ah! please thee hither towards the streamlet bend<br> +Thy steps so near, that I may list thy song.<br> +Beholding thee and this fair place, methinks,<br> +I call to mind where wander'd and how look'd<br> +Proserpine, in that season, when her child<br> +The mother lost, and she the bloomy spring."<br> +<br>As when a lady, turning in the dance,<br> +Doth foot it featly, and advances scarce<br> +One step before the other to the ground;<br> +Over the yellow and vermilion flowers<br> +Thus turn'd she at my suit, most maiden-like,<br> +Valing her sober eyes, and came so near,<br> +That I distinctly caught the dulcet sound.<br> +Arriving where the limped waters now<br> +Lav'd the green sward, her eyes she deign'd to raise,<br> +That shot such splendour on me, as I ween<br> +Ne'er glanced from Cytherea's, when her son<br> +Had sped his keenest weapon to her heart.<br> +Upon the opposite bank she stood and smil'd<br> +through her graceful fingers shifted still<br> +The intermingling dyes, which without seed<br> +That lofty land unbosoms. By the stream<br> +Three paces only were we sunder'd: yet<br> +The Hellespont, where Xerxes pass'd it o'er,<br> +(A curb for ever to the pride of man)<br> +Was by Leander not more hateful held<br> +For floating, with inhospitable wave<br> +'Twixt Sestus and Abydos, than by me<br> +That flood, because it gave no passage thence.<br> +<br>"Strangers ye come, and haply in this place,<br> +That cradled human nature in its birth,<br> +Wond'ring, ye not without suspicion view<br> +My smiles: but that sweet strain of psalmody,<br> +'Thou, Lord! hast made me glad,' will give ye light,<br> +Which may uncloud your minds. And thou, who stand'st<br> +The foremost, and didst make thy suit to me,<br> +Say if aught else thou wish to hear: for I<br> +Came prompt to answer every doubt of thine."<br> +<br>She spake; and I replied: "I know not how<br> +To reconcile this wave and rustling sound<br> +Of forest leaves, with what I late have heard<br> +Of opposite report." She answering thus:<br> +"I will unfold the cause, whence that proceeds,<br> +Which makes thee wonder; and so purge the cloud<br> +That hath enwraps thee. The First Good, whose joy<br> +Is only in himself, created man<br> +For happiness, and gave this goodly place,<br> +His pledge and earnest of eternal peace.<br> +Favour'd thus highly, through his own defect<br> +He fell, and here made short sojourn; he fell,<br> +And, for the bitterness of sorrow, chang'd<br> +Laughter unblam'd and ever-new delight.<br> +That vapours none, exhal'd from earth beneath,<br> +Or from the waters (which, wherever heat<br> +Attracts them, follow), might ascend thus far<br> +To vex man's peaceful state, this mountain rose<br> +So high toward the heav'n, nor fears the rage<br> +Of elements contending, from that part<br> +Exempted, where the gate his limit bars.<br> +Because the circumambient air throughout<br> +With its first impulse circles still, unless<br> +Aught interpose to cheek or thwart its course;<br> +Upon the summit, which on every side<br> +To visitation of th' impassive air<br> +Is open, doth that motion strike, and makes<br> +Beneath its sway th' umbrageous wood resound:<br> +And in the shaken plant such power resides,<br> +That it impregnates with its efficacy<br> +The voyaging breeze, upon whose subtle plume<br> +That wafted flies abroad; and th' other land<br> +Receiving (as 't is worthy in itself,<br> +Or in the clime, that warms it), doth conceive,<br> +And from its womb produces many a tree<br> +Of various virtue. This when thou hast heard,<br> +The marvel ceases, if in yonder earth<br> +Some plant without apparent seed be found<br> +To fix its fibrous stem. And further learn,<br> +That with prolific foison of all seeds,<br> +This holy plain is fill'd, and in itself<br> +Bears fruit that ne'er was pluck'd on other soil.<br> + The water, thou behold'st, springs not from vein,<br> +As stream, that intermittently repairs<br> +And spends his pulse of life, but issues forth<br> +From fountain, solid, undecaying, sure;<br> +And by the will omnific, full supply<br> +Feeds whatsoe'er On either side it pours;<br> +On this devolv'd with power to take away<br> +Remembrance of offence, on that to bring<br> +Remembrance back of every good deed done.<br> +From whence its name of Lethe on this part;<br> +On th' other Eunoe: both of which must first<br> +Be tasted ere it work; the last exceeding<br> +All flavours else. Albeit thy thirst may now<br> +Be well contented, if I here break off,<br> +No more revealing: yet a corollary<br> +I freely give beside: nor deem my words<br> +Less grateful to thee, if they somewhat pass<br> +The stretch of promise. They, whose verse of yore<br> +The golden age recorded and its bliss,<br> +On the Parnassian mountain, of this place<br> +Perhaps had dream'd. Here was man guiltless, here<br> +Perpetual spring and every fruit, and this<br> +The far-fam'd nectar." Turning to the bards,<br> +When she had ceas'd, I noted in their looks<br> +A smile at her conclusion; then my face<br> +Again directed to the lovely dame.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="29"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO XXIX</h2> +<br> + +<p>Singing, as if enamour'd, she resum'd<br> +And clos'd the song, with "Blessed they whose sins<br> +Are cover'd." Like the wood-nymphs then, that tripp'd<br> +Singly across the sylvan shadows, one<br> +Eager to view and one to 'scape the sun,<br> +So mov'd she on, against the current, up<br> +The verdant rivage. I, her mincing step<br> +Observing, with as tardy step pursued.<br> +<br>Between us not an hundred paces trod,<br> +The bank, on each side bending equally,<br> +Gave me to face the orient. Nor our way<br> +Far onward brought us, when to me at once<br> +She turn'd, and cried: "My brother! look and hearken."<br> +And lo! a sudden lustre ran across<br> +Through the great forest on all parts, so bright<br> +I doubted whether lightning were abroad;<br> +But that expiring ever in the spleen,<br> +That doth unfold it, and this during still<br> +And waxing still in splendor, made me question<br> +What it might be: and a sweet melody<br> +Ran through the luminous air. Then did I chide<br> +With warrantable zeal the hardihood<br> +Of our first parent, for that there were earth<br> +Stood in obedience to the heav'ns, she only,<br> +Woman, the creature of an hour, endur'd not<br> +Restraint of any veil: which had she borne<br> +Devoutly, joys, ineffable as these,<br> +Had from the first, and long time since, been mine.<br> +<br>While through that wilderness of primy sweets<br> +That never fade, suspense I walk'd, and yet<br> +Expectant of beatitude more high,<br> +Before us, like a blazing fire, the air<br> +Under the green boughs glow'd; and, for a song,<br> +Distinct the sound of melody was heard.<br> +<br>O ye thrice holy virgins! for your sakes<br> +If e'er I suffer'd hunger, cold and watching,<br> +Occasion calls on me to crave your bounty.<br> +Now through my breast let Helicon his stream<br> +Pour copious; and Urania with her choir<br> +Arise to aid me: while the verse unfolds<br> +Things that do almost mock the grasp of thought.<br> +<br>Onward a space, what seem'd seven trees of gold,<br> +The intervening distance to mine eye<br> +Falsely presented; but when I was come<br> +So near them, that no lineament was lost<br> +Of those, with which a doubtful object, seen<br> +Remotely, plays on the misdeeming sense,<br> +Then did the faculty, that ministers<br> +Discourse to reason, these for tapers of gold<br> +Distinguish, and it th' singing trace the sound<br> +"Hosanna." Above, their beauteous garniture<br> +Flam'd with more ample lustre, than the moon<br> +Through cloudless sky at midnight in her full.<br> +<br>I turn'd me full of wonder to my guide;<br> +And he did answer with a countenance<br> +Charg'd with no less amazement: whence my view<br> +Reverted to those lofty things, which came<br> +So slowly moving towards us, that the bride<br> +Would have outstript them on her bridal day.<br> +<br>The lady called aloud: "Why thus yet burns<br> +Affection in thee for these living, lights,<br> +And dost not look on that which follows them?"<br> +<br>I straightway mark'd a tribe behind them walk,<br> +As if attendant on their leaders, cloth'd<br> +With raiment of such whiteness, as on earth<br> +Was never. On my left, the wat'ry gleam<br> +Borrow'd, and gave me back, when there I look'd.<br> +As in a mirror, my left side portray'd.<br> +<br>When I had chosen on the river's edge<br> +Such station, that the distance of the stream<br> +Alone did separate me; there I stay'd<br> +My steps for clearer prospect, and beheld<br> +The flames go onward, leaving, as they went,<br> +The air behind them painted as with trail<br> +Of liveliest pencils! so distinct were mark'd<br> +All those sev'n listed colours, whence the sun<br> +Maketh his bow, and Cynthia her zone.<br> +These streaming gonfalons did flow beyond<br> +My vision; and ten paces, as I guess,<br> +Parted the outermost. Beneath a sky<br> +So beautiful, came foul and-twenty elders,<br> +By two and two, with flower-de-luces crown'd.<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/29-80.jpg"><img alt="29-80th.jpg (36K)" src="images/29-80th.jpg" height="472" width="435"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +All sang one song: "Blessed be thou among<br> +The daughters of Adam! and thy loveliness<br> +Blessed for ever!" After that the flowers,<br> +And the fresh herblets, on the opposite brink,<br> +Were free from that elected race; as light<br> +In heav'n doth second light, came after them<br> +Four animals, each crown'd with verdurous leaf.<br> +With six wings each was plum'd, the plumage full<br> +Of eyes, and th' eyes of Argus would be such,<br> +Were they endued with life. Reader, more rhymes<br> +Will not waste in shadowing forth their form:<br> +For other need no straitens, that in this<br> +I may not give my bounty room. But read<br> +Ezekiel; for he paints them, from the north<br> +How he beheld them come by Chebar's flood,<br> +In whirlwind, cloud and fire; and even such<br> +As thou shalt find them character'd by him,<br> +Here were they; save as to the pennons; there,<br> +From him departing, John accords with me.<br> +<br>The space, surrounded by the four, enclos'd<br> +A car triumphal: on two wheels it came<br> +Drawn at a Gryphon's neck; and he above<br> +Stretch'd either wing uplifted, 'tween the midst<br> +And the three listed hues, on each side three;<br> +So that the wings did cleave or injure none;<br> +And out of sight they rose. The members, far<br> +As he was bird, were golden; white the rest<br> +With vermeil intervein'd. So beautiful<br> +A car in Rome ne'er grac'd Augustus pomp,<br> +Or Africanus': e'en the sun's itself<br> +Were poor to this, that chariot of the sun<br> +Erroneous, which in blazing ruin fell<br> +At Tellus' pray'r devout, by the just doom<br> +Mysterious of all-seeing Jove. Three nymphs<br> +at the right wheel, came circling in smooth dance;<br> +The one so ruddy, that her form had scarce<br> +Been known within a furnace of clear flame:<br> +The next did look, as if the flesh and bones<br> +Were emerald: snow new-fallen seem'd the third.<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/29-118.jpg"><img alt="29-118th.jpg (39K)" src="images/29-118th.jpg" height="475" width="417"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +Now seem'd the white to lead, the ruddy now;<br> +And from her song who led, the others took<br> +Their treasure, swift or slow. At th' other wheel,<br> +A band quaternion, each in purple clad,<br> +Advanc'd with festal step, as of them one<br> +The rest conducted, one, upon whose front<br> +Three eyes were seen. In rear of all this group,<br> +Two old men I beheld, dissimilar<br> +In raiment, but in port and gesture like,<br> +Solid and mainly grave; of whom the one<br> +Did show himself some favour'd counsellor<br> +Of the great Coan, him, whom nature made<br> +To serve the costliest creature of her tribe.<br> +His fellow mark'd an opposite intent,<br> +Bearing a sword, whose glitterance and keen edge,<br> +E'en as I view'd it with the flood between,<br> +Appall'd me. Next four others I beheld,<br> +Of humble seeming: and, behind them all,<br> +One single old man, sleeping, as he came,<br> +With a shrewd visage. And these seven, each<br> +Like the first troop were habited, but wore<br> +No braid of lilies on their temples wreath'd.<br> +Rather with roses and each vermeil flower,<br> +A sight, but little distant, might have sworn,<br> +That they were all on fire above their brow.<br> +<br>Whenas the car was o'er against me, straight.<br> +Was heard a thund'ring, at whose voice it seem'd<br> +The chosen multitude were stay'd; for there,<br> +With the first ensigns, made they solemn halt.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="30"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO XXX</h2> +<br> + +<p>Soon as the polar light, which never knows<br> +Setting nor rising, nor the shadowy veil<br> +Of other cloud than sin, fair ornament<br> +Of the first heav'n, to duty each one there<br> +Safely convoying, as that lower doth<br> +The steersman to his port, stood firmly fix'd;<br> +Forthwith the saintly tribe, who in the van<br> +Between the Gryphon and its radiance came,<br> +Did turn them to the car, as to their rest:<br> +And one, as if commission'd from above,<br> +In holy chant thrice shorted forth aloud:<br> +"Come, spouse, from Libanus!" and all the rest<br> +Took up the song—At the last audit so<br> +The blest shall rise, from forth his cavern each<br> +Uplifting lightly his new-vested flesh,<br> +As, on the sacred litter, at the voice<br> +Authoritative of that elder, sprang<br> +A hundred ministers and messengers<br> +Of life eternal. "Blessed thou! who com'st!"<br> +And, "O," they cried, "from full hands scatter ye<br> +Unwith'ring lilies;" and, so saying, cast<br> +Flowers over head and round them on all sides.<br> +<br>I have beheld, ere now, at break of day,<br> +The eastern clime all roseate, and the sky<br> +Oppos'd, one deep and beautiful serene,<br> +And the sun's face so shaded, and with mists<br> +Attemper'd at lids rising, that the eye<br> +Long while endur'd the sight: thus in a cloud<br> +Of flowers, that from those hands angelic rose,<br> +And down, within and outside of the car,<br> +Fell showering, in white veil with olive wreath'd,<br> +A virgin in my view appear'd, beneath<br> +Green mantle, rob'd in hue of living flame:<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/30-32.jpg"><img alt="30-32th.jpg (34K)" src="images/30-32th.jpg" height="457" width="426"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +And o'er my Spirit, that in former days<br> +Within her presence had abode so long,<br> +No shudd'ring terror crept. Mine eyes no more<br> +Had knowledge of her; yet there mov'd from her<br> +A hidden virtue, at whose touch awak'd,<br> +The power of ancient love was strong within me.<br> +<br>No sooner on my vision streaming, smote<br> +The heav'nly influence, which years past, and e'en<br> +In childhood, thrill'd me, than towards Virgil I<br> +Turn'd me to leftward, panting, like a babe,<br> +That flees for refuge to his mother's breast,<br> +If aught have terrified or work'd him woe:<br> +And would have cried: "There is no dram of blood,<br> +That doth not quiver in me. The old flame<br> +Throws out clear tokens of reviving fire:"<br> +But Virgil had bereav'd us of himself,<br> +Virgil, my best-lov'd father; Virgil, he<br> +To whom I gave me up for safety: nor,<br> +All, our prime mother lost, avail'd to save<br> +My undew'd cheeks from blur of soiling tears.<br> +<br>"Dante, weep not, that Virgil leaves thee: nay,<br> +Weep thou not yet: behooves thee feel the edge<br> +Of other sword, and thou shalt weep for that."<br> +<br>As to the prow or stern, some admiral<br> +Paces the deck, inspiriting his crew,<br> +When 'mid the sail-yards all hands ply aloof;<br> +Thus on the left side of the car I saw,<br> +(Turning me at the sound of mine own name,<br> +Which here I am compell'd to register)<br> +The virgin station'd, who before appeared<br> +Veil'd in that festive shower angelical.<br> +<br>Towards me, across the stream, she bent her eyes;<br> +Though from her brow the veil descending, bound<br> +With foliage of Minerva, suffer'd not<br> +That I beheld her clearly; then with act<br> +Full royal, still insulting o'er her thrall,<br> +Added, as one, who speaking keepeth back<br> +The bitterest saying, to conclude the speech:<br> +"Observe me well. I am, in sooth, I am<br> +Beatrice. What! and hast thou deign'd at last<br> +Approach the mountain? knewest not, O man!<br> +Thy happiness is whole?" Down fell mine eyes<br> +On the clear fount, but there, myself espying,<br> +Recoil'd, and sought the greensward: such a weight<br> +Of shame was on my forehead. With a mien<br> +Of that stern majesty, which doth surround<br> +mother's presence to her awe-struck child,<br> +She look'd; a flavour of such bitterness<br> +Was mingled in her pity. There her words<br> +Brake off, and suddenly the angels sang:<br> +"In thee, O gracious Lord, my hope hath been:"<br> +But went no farther than, "Thou Lord, hast set<br> +My feet in ample room." As snow, that lies<br> +Amidst the living rafters on the back<br> +Of Italy congeal'd when drifted high<br> +And closely pil'd by rough Sclavonian blasts,<br> +Breathe but the land whereon no shadow falls,<br> +And straightway melting it distils away,<br> +Like a fire-wasted taper: thus was I,<br> +Without a sigh or tear, or ever these<br> +Did sing, that with the chiming of heav'n's sphere,<br> +Still in their warbling chime: but when the strain<br> +Of dulcet symphony, express'd for me<br> +Their soft compassion, more than could the words<br> +"Virgin, why so consum'st him?" then the ice,<br> +Congeal'd about my bosom, turn'd itself<br> +To spirit and water, and with anguish forth<br> +Gush'd through the lips and eyelids from the heart.<br> +<br>Upon the chariot's right edge still she stood,<br> +Immovable, and thus address'd her words<br> +To those bright semblances with pity touch'd:<br> +"Ye in th' eternal day your vigils keep,<br> +So that nor night nor slumber, with close stealth,<br> +Conveys from you a single step in all<br> +The goings on of life: thence with more heed<br> +I shape mine answer, for his ear intended,<br> +Who there stands weeping, that the sorrow now<br> +May equal the transgression. Not alone<br> +Through operation of the mighty orbs,<br> +That mark each seed to some predestin'd aim,<br> +As with aspect or fortunate or ill<br> +The constellations meet, but through benign<br> +Largess of heav'nly graces, which rain down<br> +From such a height, as mocks our vision, this man<br> +Was in the freshness of his being, such,<br> +So gifted virtually, that in him<br> +All better habits wond'rously had thriv'd.<br> +The more of kindly strength is in the soil,<br> +So much doth evil seed and lack of culture<br> +Mar it the more, and make it run to wildness.<br> +These looks sometime upheld him; for I show'd<br> +My youthful eyes, and led him by their light<br> +In upright walking. Soon as I had reach'd<br> +The threshold of my second age, and chang'd<br> +My mortal for immortal, then he left me,<br> +And gave himself to others. When from flesh<br> +To spirit I had risen, and increase<br> +Of beauty and of virtue circled me,<br> +I was less dear to him, and valued less.<br> +His steps were turn'd into deceitful ways,<br> +Following false images of good, that make<br> +No promise perfect. Nor avail'd me aught<br> +To sue for inspirations, with the which,<br> +I, both in dreams of night, and otherwise,<br> +Did call him back; of them so little reck'd him,<br> +Such depth he fell, that all device was short<br> +Of his preserving, save that he should view<br> +The children of perdition. To this end<br> +I visited the purlieus of the dead:<br> +And one, who hath conducted him thus high,<br> +Receiv'd my supplications urg'd with weeping.<br> +It were a breaking of God's high decree,<br> +If Lethe should be past, and such food tasted<br> +Without the cost of some repentant tear."</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="31"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO XXXI</h2> +<br> + +<p>"O Thou!" her words she thus without delay<br> +Resuming, turn'd their point on me, to whom<br> +They but with lateral edge seem'd harsh before,<br> +"Say thou, who stand'st beyond the holy stream,<br> +If this be true. A charge so grievous needs<br> +Thine own avowal." On my faculty<br> +Such strange amazement hung, the voice expir'd<br> +Imperfect, ere its organs gave it birth.<br> +<br>A little space refraining, then she spake:<br> +"What dost thou muse on? Answer me. The wave<br> +On thy remembrances of evil yet<br> +Hath done no injury." A mingled sense<br> +Of fear and of confusion, from my lips<br> +Did such a "Yea" produce, as needed help<br> +Of vision to interpret. As when breaks<br> +In act to be discharg'd, a cross-bow bent<br> +Beyond its pitch, both nerve and bow o'erstretch'd,<br> +The flagging weapon feebly hits the mark;<br> +Thus, tears and sighs forth gushing, did I burst<br> +Beneath the heavy load, and thus my voice<br> +Was slacken'd on its way. She straight began:<br> +"When my desire invited thee to love<br> +The good, which sets a bound to our aspirings,<br> +What bar of thwarting foss or linked chain<br> +Did meet thee, that thou so should'st quit the hope<br> +Of further progress, or what bait of ease<br> +Or promise of allurement led thee on<br> +Elsewhere, that thou elsewhere should'st rather wait?"<br> +<br>A bitter sigh I drew, then scarce found voice<br> +To answer, hardly to these sounds my lips<br> +Gave utterance, wailing: "Thy fair looks withdrawn,<br> +Things present, with deceitful pleasures, turn'd<br> +My steps aside." She answering spake: "Hadst thou<br> +Been silent, or denied what thou avow'st,<br> +Thou hadst not hid thy sin the more: such eye<br> +Observes it. But whene'er the sinner's cheek<br> +Breaks forth into the precious-streaming tears<br> +Of self-accusing, in our court the wheel<br> +Of justice doth run counter to the edge.<br> +Howe'er that thou may'st profit by thy shame<br> +For errors past, and that henceforth more strength<br> +May arm thee, when thou hear'st the Siren-voice,<br> +Lay thou aside the motive to this grief,<br> +And lend attentive ear, while I unfold<br> +How opposite a way my buried flesh<br> +Should have impell'd thee. Never didst thou spy<br> +In art or nature aught so passing sweet,<br> +As were the limbs, that in their beauteous frame<br> +Enclos'd me, and are scatter'd now in dust.<br> +If sweetest thing thus fail'd thee with my death,<br> +What, afterward, of mortal should thy wish<br> +Have tempted? When thou first hadst felt the dart<br> +Of perishable things, in my departing<br> +For better realms, thy wing thou should'st have prun'd<br> +To follow me, and never stoop'd again<br> +To 'bide a second blow for a slight girl,<br> +Or other gaud as transient and as vain.<br> +The new and inexperienc'd bird awaits,<br> +Twice it may be, or thrice, the fowler's aim;<br> +But in the sight of one, whose plumes are full,<br> +In vain the net is spread, the arrow wing'd."<br> +<br>I stood, as children silent and asham'd<br> +Stand, list'ning, with their eyes upon the earth,<br> +Acknowledging their fault and self-condemn'd.<br> +And she resum'd: "If, but to hear thus pains thee,<br> +Raise thou thy beard, and lo! what sight shall do!"<br> +<br>With less reluctance yields a sturdy holm,<br> +Rent from its fibers by a blast, that blows<br> +From off the pole, or from Iarbas' land,<br> +Than I at her behest my visage rais'd:<br> +And thus the face denoting by the beard,<br> +I mark'd the secret sting her words convey'd.<br> +<br>No sooner lifted I mine aspect up,<br> +Than downward sunk that vision I beheld<br> +Of goodly creatures vanish; and mine eyes<br> +Yet unassur'd and wavering, bent their light<br> +On Beatrice. Towards the animal,<br> +Who joins two natures in one form, she turn'd,<br> +And, even under shadow of her veil,<br> +And parted by the verdant rill, that flow'd<br> +Between, in loveliness appear'd as much<br> +Her former self surpassing, as on earth<br> +All others she surpass'd. Remorseful goads<br> +Shot sudden through me. Each thing else, the more<br> +Its love had late beguil'd me, now the more<br> +I Was loathsome. On my heart so keenly smote<br> +The bitter consciousness, that on the ground<br> +O'erpower'd I fell: and what my state was then,<br> +She knows who was the cause. When now my strength<br> +Flow'd back, returning outward from the heart,<br> +The lady, whom alone I first had seen,<br> +I found above me. "Loose me not," she cried:<br> +"Loose not thy hold;" and lo! had dragg'd me high<br> +As to my neck into the stream, while she,<br> +Still as she drew me after, swept along,<br> +Swift as a shuttle, bounding o'er the wave.<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/31-100.jpg"><img alt="31-100th.jpg (39K)" src="images/31-100th.jpg" height="474" width="427"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br>The blessed shore approaching then was heard<br> +So sweetly, "Tu asperges me," that I<br> +May not remember, much less tell the sound.<br> +The beauteous dame, her arms expanding, clasp'd<br> +My temples, and immerg'd me, where 't was fit<br> +The wave should drench me: and thence raising up,<br> +Within the fourfold dance of lovely nymphs<br> +Presented me so lav'd, and with their arm<br> +They each did cover me. "Here are we nymphs,<br> +And in the heav'n are stars. Or ever earth<br> +Was visited of Beatrice, we<br> +Appointed for her handmaids, tended on her.<br> +We to her eyes will lead thee; but the light<br> +Of gladness that is in them, well to scan,<br> +Those yonder three, of deeper ken than ours,<br> +Thy sight shall quicken." Thus began their song;<br> +And then they led me to the Gryphon's breast,<br> +While, turn'd toward us, Beatrice stood.<br> +"Spare not thy vision. We have stationed thee<br> +Before the emeralds, whence love erewhile<br> +Hath drawn his weapons on thee." As they spake,<br> +A thousand fervent wishes riveted<br> +Mine eyes upon her beaming eyes, that stood<br> +Still fix'd toward the Gryphon motionless.<br> +As the sun strikes a mirror, even thus<br> +Within those orbs the twofold being, shone,<br> +For ever varying, in one figure now<br> +Reflected, now in other. Reader! muse<br> +How wond'rous in my sight it seem'd to mark<br> +A thing, albeit steadfast in itself,<br> +Yet in its imag'd semblance mutable.<br> +<br>Full of amaze, and joyous, while my soul<br> +Fed on the viand, whereof still desire<br> +Grows with satiety, the other three<br> +With gesture, that declar'd a loftier line,<br> +Advanc'd: to their own carol on they came<br> +Dancing in festive ring angelical.<br> +<br>"Turn, Beatrice!" was their song: "O turn<br> +Thy saintly sight on this thy faithful one,<br> +Who to behold thee many a wearisome pace<br> +Hath measur'd. Gracious at our pray'r vouchsafe<br> +Unveil to him thy cheeks: that he may mark<br> +Thy second beauty, now conceal'd." O splendour!<br> +O sacred light eternal! who is he<br> +So pale with musing in Pierian shades,<br> +Or with that fount so lavishly imbued,<br> +Whose spirit should not fail him in th' essay<br> +To represent thee such as thou didst seem,<br> +When under cope of the still-chiming heaven<br> +Thou gav'st to open air thy charms reveal'd.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="32"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO XXXII</h2> +<br> + +<p>Mine eyes with such an eager coveting,<br> +Were bent to rid them of their ten years' thirst,<br> +No other sense was waking: and e'en they<br> +Were fenc'd on either side from heed of aught;<br> +So tangled in its custom'd toils that smile<br> +Of saintly brightness drew me to itself,<br> +When forcibly toward the left my sight<br> +The sacred virgins turn'd; for from their lips<br> +I heard the warning sounds: "Too fix'd a gaze!"<br> +<br>Awhile my vision labor'd; as when late<br> +Upon the' o'erstrained eyes the sun hath smote:<br> +But soon to lesser object, as the view<br> +Was now recover'd (lesser in respect<br> +To that excess of sensible, whence late<br> +I had perforce been sunder'd) on their right<br> +I mark'd that glorious army wheel, and turn,<br> +Against the sun and sev'nfold lights, their front.<br> +As when, their bucklers for protection rais'd,<br> +A well-rang'd troop, with portly banners curl'd,<br> +Wheel circling, ere the whole can change their ground:<br> +E'en thus the goodly regiment of heav'n<br> +Proceeding, all did pass us, ere the car<br> +Had slop'd his beam. Attendant at the wheels<br> +The damsels turn'd; and on the Gryphon mov'd<br> +The sacred burden, with a pace so smooth,<br> +No feather on him trembled. The fair dame<br> +Who through the wave had drawn me, companied<br> +By Statius and myself, pursued the wheel,<br> +Whose orbit, rolling, mark'd a lesser arch.<br> +<br>Through the high wood, now void (the more her blame,<br> +Who by the serpent was beguil'd) I past<br> +With step in cadence to the harmony<br> +Angelic. Onward had we mov'd, as far<br> +Perchance as arrow at three several flights<br> +Full wing'd had sped, when from her station down<br> +Descended Beatrice. With one voice<br> +All murmur'd "Adam," circling next a plant<br> +Despoil'd of flowers and leaf on every bough.<br> +Its tresses, spreading more as more they rose,<br> +Were such, as 'midst their forest wilds for height<br> +The Indians might have gaz'd at. "Blessed thou!<br> +Gryphon, whose beak hath never pluck'd that tree<br> +Pleasant to taste: for hence the appetite<br> +Was warp'd to evil." Round the stately trunk<br> +Thus shouted forth the rest, to whom return'd<br> +The animal twice-gender'd: "Yea: for so<br> +The generation of the just are sav'd."<br> +And turning to the chariot-pole, to foot<br> +He drew it of the widow'd branch, and bound<br> +There left unto the stock whereon it grew.<br> +<br>As when large floods of radiance from above<br> +Stream, with that radiance mingled, which ascends<br> +Next after setting of the scaly sign,<br> +Our plants then burgeon, and each wears anew<br> +His wonted colours, ere the sun have yok'd<br> +Beneath another star his flamy steeds;<br> +Thus putting forth a hue, more faint than rose,<br> +And deeper than the violet, was renew'd<br> +The plant, erewhile in all its branches bare.<br> +<br>Unearthly was the hymn, which then arose.<br> +I understood it not, nor to the end<br> +Endur'd the harmony. Had I the skill<br> +To pencil forth, how clos'd th' unpitying eyes<br> +Slumb'ring, when Syrinx warbled, (eyes that paid<br> +So dearly for their watching,) then like painter,<br> +That with a model paints, I might design<br> +The manner of my falling into sleep.<br> +But feign who will the slumber cunningly;<br> +I pass it by to when I wak'd, and tell<br> +How suddenly a flash of splendour rent<br> +The curtain of my sleep, and one cries out:<br> +"Arise, what dost thou?" As the chosen three,<br> +On Tabor's mount, admitted to behold<br> +The blossoming of that fair tree, whose fruit<br> +Is coveted of angels, and doth make<br> +Perpetual feast in heaven, to themselves<br> +Returning at the word, whence deeper sleeps<br> +Were broken, that they their tribe diminish'd saw,<br> +Both Moses and Elias gone, and chang'd<br> +The stole their master wore: thus to myself<br> +Returning, over me beheld I stand<br> +The piteous one, who cross the stream had brought<br> +My steps. "And where," all doubting, I exclaim'd,<br> +"Is Beatrice?"—"See her," she replied,<br> +"Beneath the fresh leaf seated on its root.<br> +Behold th' associate choir that circles her.<br> +The others, with a melody more sweet<br> +And more profound, journeying to higher realms,<br> +Upon the Gryphon tend." If there her words<br> +Were clos'd, I know not; but mine eyes had now<br> +Ta'en view of her, by whom all other thoughts<br> +Were barr'd admittance. On the very ground<br> +Alone she sat, as she had there been left<br> +A guard upon the wain, which I beheld<br> +Bound to the twyform beast. The seven nymphs<br> +Did make themselves a cloister round about her,<br> +And in their hands upheld those lights secure<br> +From blast septentrion and the gusty south.<br> +<br>"A little while thou shalt be forester here:<br> +And citizen shalt be forever with me,<br> +Of that true Rome, wherein Christ dwells a Roman<br> +To profit the misguided world, keep now<br> +Thine eyes upon the car; and what thou seest,<br> +Take heed thou write, returning to that place."<br> +<br>Thus Beatrice: at whose feet inclin'd<br> +Devout, at her behest, my thought and eyes,<br> +I, as she bade, directed. Never fire,<br> +With so swift motion, forth a stormy cloud<br> +Leap'd downward from the welkin's farthest bound,<br> +As I beheld the bird of Jove descending<br> +Pounce on the tree, and, as he rush'd, the rind,<br> +Disparting crush beneath him, buds much more<br> +And leaflets. On the car with all his might<br> +He struck, whence, staggering like a ship, it reel'd,<br> +At random driv'n, to starboard now, o'ercome,<br> +And now to larboard, by the vaulting waves.<br> +<br>Next springing up into the chariot's womb<br> +A fox I saw, with hunger seeming pin'd<br> +Of all good food. But, for his ugly sins<br> +The saintly maid rebuking him, away<br> +Scamp'ring he turn'd, fast as his hide-bound corpse<br> +Would bear him. Next, from whence before he came,<br> +I saw the eagle dart into the hull<br> +O' th' car, and leave it with his feathers lin'd;<br> +And then a voice, like that which issues forth<br> +From heart with sorrow riv'd, did issue forth<br> +From heav'n, and, "O poor bark of mine!" it cried,<br> +"How badly art thou freighted!" Then, it seem'd,<br> +That the earth open'd between either wheel,<br> +And I beheld a dragon issue thence,<br> +That through the chariot fix'd his forked train;<br> +And like a wasp that draggeth back the sting,<br> +So drawing forth his baleful train, he dragg'd<br> +Part of the bottom forth, and went his way<br> +Exulting. What remain'd, as lively turf<br> +With green herb, so did clothe itself with plumes,<br> +Which haply had with purpose chaste and kind<br> +Been offer'd; and therewith were cloth'd the wheels,<br> +Both one and other, and the beam, so quickly<br> +A sigh were not breath'd sooner. Thus transform'd,<br> +The holy structure, through its several parts,<br> +Did put forth heads, three on the beam, and one<br> +On every side; the first like oxen horn'd,<br> +But with a single horn upon their front<br> +The four. Like monster sight hath never seen.<br> +O'er it methought there sat, secure as rock<br> +On mountain's lofty top, a shameless whore,<br> +Whose ken rov'd loosely round her. At her side,<br> +As 't were that none might bear her off, I saw<br> +A giant stand; and ever, and anon<br> +They mingled kisses. But, her lustful eyes<br> +Chancing on me to wander, that fell minion<br> +Scourg'd her from head to foot all o'er; then full<br> +Of jealousy, and fierce with rage, unloos'd<br> +The monster, and dragg'd on, so far across<br> +The forest, that from me its shades alone<br> +Shielded the harlot and the new-form'd brute.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/32-148.jpg"><img alt="32-148th.jpg (47K)" src="images/32-148th.jpg" height="458" width="429"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<a name="33"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO XXXIII</h2> +<br> + +<p>"The heathen, Lord! are come!" responsive thus,<br> +The trinal now, and now the virgin band<br> +Quaternion, their sweet psalmody began,<br> +Weeping; and Beatrice listen'd, sad<br> +And sighing, to the song', in such a mood,<br> +That Mary, as she stood beside the cross,<br> +Was scarce more chang'd. But when they gave her place<br> +To speak, then, risen upright on her feet,<br> +She, with a colour glowing bright as fire,<br> +Did answer: "Yet a little while, and ye<br> +Shall see me not; and, my beloved sisters,<br> +Again a little while, and ye shall see me."<br> +<br>Before her then she marshall'd all the seven,<br> +And, beck'ning only motion'd me, the dame,<br> +And that remaining sage, to follow her.<br> +<br>So on she pass'd; and had not set, I ween,<br> +Her tenth step to the ground, when with mine eyes<br> +Her eyes encounter'd; and, with visage mild,<br> +"So mend thy pace," she cried, "that if my words<br> +Address thee, thou mayst still be aptly plac'd<br> +To hear them." Soon as duly to her side<br> +I now had hasten'd: "Brother!" she began,<br> +"Why mak'st thou no attempt at questioning,<br> +As thus we walk together?" Like to those<br> +Who, speaking with too reverent an awe<br> +Before their betters, draw not forth the voice<br> +Alive unto their lips, befell me shell<br> +That I in sounds imperfect thus began:<br> +"Lady! what I have need of, that thou know'st,<br> +And what will suit my need." She answering thus:<br> +"Of fearfulness and shame, I will, that thou<br> +Henceforth do rid thee: that thou speak no more,<br> +As one who dreams. Thus far be taught of me:<br> +The vessel, which thou saw'st the serpent break,<br> +Was and is not: let him, who hath the blame,<br> +Hope not to scare God's vengeance with a sop.<br> +Without an heir for ever shall not be<br> +That eagle, he, who left the chariot plum'd,<br> +Which monster made it first and next a prey.<br> +Plainly I view, and therefore speak, the stars<br> +E'en now approaching, whose conjunction, free<br> +From all impediment and bar, brings on<br> +A season, in the which, one sent from God,<br> +(Five hundred, five, and ten, do mark him out)<br> +That foul one, and th' accomplice of her guilt,<br> +The giant, both shall slay. And if perchance<br> +My saying, dark as Themis or as Sphinx,<br> +Fail to persuade thee, (since like them it foils<br> +The intellect with blindness) yet ere long<br> +Events shall be the Naiads, that will solve<br> +This knotty riddle, and no damage light<br> +On flock or field. Take heed; and as these words<br> +By me are utter'd, teach them even so<br> +To those who live that life, which is a race<br> +To death: and when thou writ'st them, keep in mind<br> +Not to conceal how thou hast seen the plant,<br> +That twice hath now been spoil'd. This whoso robs,<br> +This whoso plucks, with blasphemy of deed<br> +Sins against God, who for his use alone<br> +Creating hallow'd it. For taste of this,<br> +In pain and in desire, five thousand years<br> +And upward, the first soul did yearn for him,<br> +Who punish'd in himself the fatal gust.<br> +<br>"Thy reason slumbers, if it deem this height<br> +And summit thus inverted of the plant,<br> +Without due cause: and were not vainer thoughts,<br> +As Elsa's numbing waters, to thy soul,<br> +And their fond pleasures had not dyed it dark<br> +As Pyramus the mulberry, thou hadst seen,<br> +In such momentous circumstance alone,<br> +God's equal justice morally implied<br> +In the forbidden tree. But since I mark thee<br> +In understanding harden'd into stone,<br> +And, to that hardness, spotted too and stain'd,<br> +So that thine eye is dazzled at my word,<br> +I will, that, if not written, yet at least<br> +Painted thou take it in thee, for the cause,<br> +That one brings home his staff inwreath'd with palm.<br> +<br>I thus: "As wax by seal, that changeth not<br> +Its impress, now is stamp'd my brain by thee.<br> +But wherefore soars thy wish'd-for speech so high<br> +Beyond my sight, that loses it the more,<br> +The more it strains to reach it?"—"To the end<br> +That thou mayst know," she answer'd straight, "the school,<br> +That thou hast follow'd; and how far behind,<br> +When following my discourse, its learning halts:<br> +And mayst behold your art, from the divine<br> +As distant, as the disagreement is<br> +'Twixt earth and heaven's most high and rapturous orb."<br> +<br>"I not remember," I replied, "that e'er<br> +I was estrang'd from thee, nor for such fault<br> +Doth conscience chide me." Smiling she return'd:<br> +"If thou canst, not remember, call to mind<br> +How lately thou hast drunk of Lethe's wave;<br> +And, sure as smoke doth indicate a flame,<br> +In that forgetfulness itself conclude<br> +Blame from thy alienated will incurr'd.<br> +From henceforth verily my words shall be<br> +As naked as will suit them to appear<br> +In thy unpractis'd view." More sparkling now,<br> +And with retarded course the sun possess'd<br> +The circle of mid-day, that varies still<br> +As th' aspect varies of each several clime,<br> +When, as one, sent in vaward of a troop<br> +For escort, pauses, if perchance he spy<br> +Vestige of somewhat strange and rare: so paus'd<br> +The sev'nfold band, arriving at the verge<br> +Of a dun umbrage hoar, such as is seen,<br> +Beneath green leaves and gloomy branches, oft<br> +To overbrow a bleak and alpine cliff.<br> +And, where they stood, before them, as it seem'd,<br> +Tigris and Euphrates both beheld,<br> +Forth from one fountain issue; and, like friends,<br> +Linger at parting. "O enlight'ning beam!<br> +O glory of our kind! beseech thee say<br> +What water this, which from one source deriv'd<br> +Itself removes to distance from itself?"<br> +<br>To such entreaty answer thus was made:<br> +"Entreat Matilda, that she teach thee this."<br> +<br>And here, as one, who clears himself of blame<br> +Imputed, the fair dame return'd: "Of me<br> +He this and more hath learnt; and I am safe<br> +That Lethe's water hath not hid it from him."<br> +<br>And Beatrice: "Some more pressing care<br> +That oft the memory 'reeves, perchance hath made<br> +His mind's eye dark. But lo! where Eunoe cows!<br> +Lead thither; and, as thou art wont, revive<br> +His fainting virtue." As a courteous spirit,<br> +That proffers no excuses, but as soon<br> +As he hath token of another's will,<br> +Makes it his own; when she had ta'en me, thus<br> +The lovely maiden mov'd her on, and call'd<br> +To Statius with an air most lady-like:<br> +"Come thou with him." Were further space allow'd,<br> +Then, Reader, might I sing, though but in part,<br> +That beverage, with whose sweetness I had ne'er<br> +Been sated. But, since all the leaves are full,<br> +Appointed for this second strain, mine art<br> +With warning bridle checks me. I return'd<br> +From the most holy wave, regenerate,<br> +If 'en as new plants renew'd with foliage new,<br> +Pure and made apt for mounting to the stars.</p> + + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/33-134.jpg"><img alt="33-134th.jpg (36K)" src="images/33-134th.jpg" height="474" width="430"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + + + + + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + + + +<br> +<br> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Vision of Purgatory, Part 5, by Dante Alighieri + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VISION OF PURGATORY, PART 5 *** + +***** This file should be named 8794-h.htm or 8794-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/8/7/9/8794/ + +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 5 + Translated By The Rev. H. F. Cary, Illustrated by Gustave Dore + +Author: Dante Alighieri + +Release Date: August 5, 2004 [EBook #8794] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VISION OF PURGATORY, PART 5 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +THE VISION + +OF + +HELL, PURGATORY, AND PARADISE + +BY DANTE ALIGHIERI + + +TRANSLATED BY + +THE REV. H. F. CARY + + + + +PURGATORY + +Part 5 + +Cantos 26 - 33 + + + +CANTO XXVI + +While singly thus along the rim we walk'd, +Oft the good master warn'd me: "Look thou well. +Avail it that I caution thee." The sun +Now all the western clime irradiate chang'd +From azure tinct to white; and, as I pass'd, +My passing shadow made the umber'd flame +Burn ruddier. At so strange a sight I mark'd +That many a spirit marvel'd on his way. + +This bred occasion first to speak of me, +"He seems," said they, "no insubstantial frame:" +Then to obtain what certainty they might, +Stretch'd towards me, careful not to overpass +The burning pale. "O thou, who followest +The others, haply not more slow than they, +But mov'd by rev'rence, answer me, who burn +In thirst and fire: nor I alone, but these +All for thine answer do more thirst, than doth +Indian or Aethiop for the cooling stream. +Tell us, how is it that thou mak'st thyself +A wall against the sun, as thou not yet +Into th' inextricable toils of death +Hadst enter'd?" Thus spake one, and I had straight +Declar'd me, if attention had not turn'd +To new appearance. Meeting these, there came, +Midway the burning path, a crowd, on whom +Earnestly gazing, from each part I view +The shadows all press forward, sev'rally +Each snatch a hasty kiss, and then away. +E'en so the emmets, 'mid their dusky troops, +Peer closely one at other, to spy out +Their mutual road perchance, and how they thrive. + +That friendly greeting parted, ere dispatch +Of the first onward step, from either tribe +Loud clamour rises: those, who newly come, +Shout "Sodom and Gomorrah!" these, "The cow +Pasiphae enter'd, that the beast she woo'd +Might rush unto her luxury." Then as cranes, +That part towards the Riphaean mountains fly, +Part towards the Lybic sands, these to avoid +The ice, and those the sun; so hasteth off +One crowd, advances th' other; and resume +Their first song weeping, and their several shout. + +Again drew near my side the very same, +Who had erewhile besought me, and their looks +Mark'd eagerness to listen. I, who twice +Their will had noted, spake: "O spirits secure, +Whene'er the time may be, of peaceful end! +My limbs, nor crude, nor in mature old age, +Have I left yonder: here they bear me, fed +With blood, and sinew-strung. That I no more +May live in blindness, hence I tend aloft. +There is a dame on high, who wind for us +This grace, by which my mortal through your realm +I bear. But may your utmost wish soon meet +Such full fruition, that the orb of heaven, +Fullest of love, and of most ample space, +Receive you, as ye tell (upon my page +Henceforth to stand recorded) who ye are, +And what this multitude, that at your backs +Have past behind us." As one, mountain-bred, +Rugged and clownish, if some city's walls +He chance to enter, round him stares agape, +Confounded and struck dumb; e'en such appear'd +Each spirit. But when rid of that amaze, +(Not long the inmate of a noble heart) +He, who before had question'd, thus resum'd: +"O blessed, who, for death preparing, tak'st +Experience of our limits, in thy bark! +Their crime, who not with us proceed, was that, +For which, as he did triumph, Caesar heard +The snout of 'queen,' to taunt him. Hence their cry +Of 'Sodom,' as they parted, to rebuke +Themselves, and aid the burning by their shame. +Our sinning was Hermaphrodite: but we, +Because the law of human kind we broke, +Following like beasts our vile concupiscence, +Hence parting from them, to our own disgrace +Record the name of her, by whom the beast +In bestial tire was acted. Now our deeds +Thou know'st, and how we sinn'd. If thou by name +Wouldst haply know us, time permits not now +To tell so much, nor can I. Of myself +Learn what thou wishest. Guinicelli I, +Who having truly sorrow'd ere my last, +Already cleanse me." With such pious joy, +As the two sons upon their mother gaz'd +From sad Lycurgus rescu'd, such my joy +(Save that I more represt it) when I heard +From his own lips the name of him pronounc'd, +Who was a father to me, and to those +My betters, who have ever us'd the sweet +And pleasant rhymes of love. So nought I heard +Nor spake, but long time thoughtfully I went, +Gazing on him; and, only for the fire, +Approach'd not nearer. When my eyes were fed +By looking on him, with such solemn pledge, +As forces credence, I devoted me +Unto his service wholly. In reply +He thus bespake me: "What from thee I hear +Is grav'd so deeply on my mind, the waves +Of Lethe shall not wash it off, nor make +A whit less lively. But as now thy oath +Has seal'd the truth, declare what cause impels +That love, which both thy looks and speech bewray." + +"Those dulcet lays," I answer'd, "which, as long +As of our tongue the beauty does not fade, +Shall make us love the very ink that trac'd them." + +"Brother!" he cried, and pointed at a shade +Before him, "there is one, whose mother speech +Doth owe to him a fairer ornament. +He in love ditties and the tales of prose +Without a rival stands, and lets the fools +Talk on, who think the songster of Limoges +O'ertops him. Rumour and the popular voice +They look to more than truth, and so confirm +Opinion, ere by art or reason taught. +Thus many of the elder time cried up +Guittone, giving him the prize, till truth +By strength of numbers vanquish'd. If thou own +So ample privilege, as to have gain'd +Free entrance to the cloister, whereof Christ +Is Abbot of the college, say to him +One paternoster for me, far as needs +For dwellers in this world, where power to sin +No longer tempts us." Haply to make way +For one, that follow'd next, when that was said, +He vanish'd through the fire, as through the wave +A fish, that glances diving to the deep. + +I, to the spirit he had shown me, drew +A little onward, and besought his name, +For which my heart, I said, kept gracious room. +He frankly thus began: "Thy courtesy +So wins on me, I have nor power nor will +To hide me. I am Arnault; and with songs, +Sorely lamenting for my folly past, +Thorough this ford of fire I wade, and see +The day, I hope for, smiling in my view. +I pray ye by the worth that guides ye up +Unto the summit of the scale, in time +Remember ye my suff'rings." With such words +He disappear'd in the refining flame. + + + + +CANTO XXVII + +Now was the sun so station'd, as when first +His early radiance quivers on the heights, +Where stream'd his Maker's blood, while Libra hangs +Above Hesperian Ebro, and new fires +Meridian flash on Ganges' yellow tide. + +So day was sinking, when the' angel of God +Appear'd before us. Joy was in his mien. +Forth of the flame he stood upon the brink, +And with a voice, whose lively clearness far +Surpass'd our human, "Blessed are the pure +In heart," he Sang: then near him as we came, +"Go ye not further, holy spirits!" he cried, +"Ere the fire pierce you: enter in; and list +Attentive to the song ye hear from thence." + +I, when I heard his saying, was as one +Laid in the grave. My hands together clasp'd, +And upward stretching, on the fire I look'd, +And busy fancy conjur'd up the forms +Erewhile beheld alive consum'd in flames. + +Th' escorting spirits turn'd with gentle looks +Toward me, and the Mantuan spake: "My son, +Here torment thou mayst feel, but canst not death. +Remember thee, remember thee, if I +Safe e'en on Geryon brought thee: now I come +More near to God, wilt thou not trust me now? +Of this be sure: though in its womb that flame +A thousand years contain'd thee, from thy head +No hair should perish. If thou doubt my truth, +Approach, and with thy hands thy vesture's hem +Stretch forth, and for thyself confirm belief. +Lay now all fear, O lay all fear aside. +Turn hither, and come onward undismay'd." +I still, though conscience urg'd' no step advanc'd. + +When still he saw me fix'd and obstinate, +Somewhat disturb'd he cried: "Mark now, my son, +From Beatrice thou art by this wall +Divided." As at Thisbe's name the eye +Of Pyramus was open'd (when life ebb'd +Fast from his veins), and took one parting glance, +While vermeil dyed the mulberry; thus I turn'd +To my sage guide, relenting, when I heard +The name, that springs forever in my breast. + +He shook his forehead; and, "How long," he said, +"Linger we now?" then smil'd, as one would smile +Upon a child, that eyes the fruit and yields. +Into the fire before me then he walk'd; +And Statius, who erewhile no little space +Had parted us, he pray'd to come behind. + +I would have cast me into molten glass +To cool me, when I enter'd; so intense +Rag'd the conflagrant mass. The sire belov'd, +To comfort me, as he proceeded, still +Of Beatrice talk'd. "Her eyes," saith he, +"E'en now I seem to view." From the other side +A voice, that sang, did guide us, and the voice +Following, with heedful ear, we issued forth, +There where the path led upward. "Come," we heard, +"Come, blessed of my Father." Such the sounds, +That hail'd us from within a light, which shone +So radiant, I could not endure the view. +"The sun," it added, "hastes: and evening comes. +Delay not: ere the western sky is hung +With blackness, strive ye for the pass." Our way +Upright within the rock arose, and fac'd +Such part of heav'n, that from before my steps +The beams were shrouded of the sinking sun. + +Nor many stairs were overpass, when now +By fading of the shadow we perceiv'd +The sun behind us couch'd: and ere one face +Of darkness o'er its measureless expanse +Involv'd th' horizon, and the night her lot +Held individual, each of us had made +A stair his pallet: not that will, but power, +Had fail'd us, by the nature of that mount +Forbidden further travel. As the goats, +That late have skipp'd and wanton'd rapidly +Upon the craggy cliffs, ere they had ta'en +Their supper on the herb, now silent lie +And ruminate beneath the umbrage brown, +While noonday rages; and the goatherd leans +Upon his staff, and leaning watches them: +And as the swain, that lodges out all night +In quiet by his flock, lest beast of prey +Disperse them; even so all three abode, +I as a goat and as the shepherds they, +Close pent on either side by shelving rock. + +A little glimpse of sky was seen above; +Yet by that little I beheld the stars +In magnitude and rustle shining forth +With more than wonted glory. As I lay, +Gazing on them, and in that fit of musing, +Sleep overcame me, sleep, that bringeth oft +Tidings of future hap. About the hour, +As I believe, when Venus from the east +First lighten'd on the mountain, she whose orb +Seems always glowing with the fire of love, +A lady young and beautiful, I dream'd, +Was passing o'er a lea; and, as she came, +Methought I saw her ever and anon +Bending to cull the flowers; and thus she sang: +"Know ye, whoever of my name would ask, +That I am Leah: for my brow to weave +A garland, these fair hands unwearied ply. +To please me at the crystal mirror, here +I deck me. But my sister Rachel, she +Before her glass abides the livelong day, +Her radiant eyes beholding, charm'd no less, +Than I with this delightful task. Her joy +In contemplation, as in labour mine." + +And now as glimm'ring dawn appear'd, that breaks +More welcome to the pilgrim still, as he +Sojourns less distant on his homeward way, +Darkness from all sides fled, and with it fled +My slumber; whence I rose and saw my guide +Already risen. "That delicious fruit, +Which through so many a branch the zealous care +Of mortals roams in quest of, shall this day +Appease thy hunger." Such the words I heard +From Virgil's lip; and never greeting heard +So pleasant as the sounds. Within me straight +Desire so grew upon desire to mount, +Thenceforward at each step I felt the wings +Increasing for my flight. When we had run +O'er all the ladder to its topmost round, +As there we stood, on me the Mantuan fix'd +His eyes, and thus he spake: "Both fires, my son, +The temporal and eternal, thou hast seen, +And art arriv'd, where of itself my ken +No further reaches. I with skill and art +Thus far have drawn thee. Now thy pleasure take +For guide. Thou hast o'ercome the steeper way, +O'ercome the straighter. Lo! the sun, that darts +His beam upon thy forehead! lo! the herb, +The arboreta and flowers, which of itself +This land pours forth profuse! Will those bright eyes +With gladness come, which, weeping, made me haste +To succour thee, thou mayst or seat thee down, +Or wander where thou wilt. Expect no more +Sanction of warning voice or sign from me, +Free of thy own arbitrement to choose, +Discreet, judicious. To distrust thy sense +Were henceforth error. I invest thee then +With crown and mitre, sovereign o'er thyself." + + + + +CANTO XXVIII + +Through that celestial forest, whose thick shade +With lively greenness the new-springing day +Attemper'd, eager now to roam, and search +Its limits round, forthwith I left the bank, +Along the champain leisurely my way +Pursuing, o'er the ground, that on all sides +Delicious odour breath'd. A pleasant air, +That intermitted never, never veer'd, +Smote on my temples, gently, as a wind +Of softest influence: at which the sprays, +Obedient all, lean'd trembling to that part +Where first the holy mountain casts his shade, +Yet were not so disorder'd, but that still +Upon their top the feather'd quiristers +Applied their wonted art, and with full joy +Welcom'd those hours of prime, and warbled shrill +Amid the leaves, that to their jocund lays +inept tenor; even as from branch to branch, +Along the piney forests on the shore +Of Chiassi, rolls the gath'ring melody, +When Eolus hath from his cavern loos'd +The dripping south. Already had my steps, +Though slow, so far into that ancient wood +Transported me, I could not ken the place +Where I had enter'd, when behold! my path +Was bounded by a rill, which to the left +With little rippling waters bent the grass, +That issued from its brink. On earth no wave +How clean soe'er, that would not seem to have +Some mixture in itself, compar'd with this, +Transpicuous, clear; yet darkly on it roll'd, +Darkly beneath perpetual gloom, which ne'er +Admits or sun or moon light there to shine. + +My feet advanc'd not; but my wond'ring eyes +Pass'd onward, o'er the streamlet, to survey +The tender May-bloom, flush'd through many a hue, +In prodigal variety: and there, +As object, rising suddenly to view, +That from our bosom every thought beside +With the rare marvel chases, I beheld +A lady all alone, who, singing, went, +And culling flower from flower, wherewith her way +Was all o'er painted. "Lady beautiful! +Thou, who (if looks, that use to speak the heart, +Are worthy of our trust), with love's own beam +Dost warm thee," thus to her my speech I fram'd: +"Ah! please thee hither towards the streamlet bend +Thy steps so near, that I may list thy song. +Beholding thee and this fair place, methinks, +I call to mind where wander'd and how look'd +Proserpine, in that season, when her child +The mother lost, and she the bloomy spring." + +As when a lady, turning in the dance, +Doth foot it featly, and advances scarce +One step before the other to the ground; +Over the yellow and vermilion flowers +Thus turn'd she at my suit, most maiden-like, +Valing her sober eyes, and came so near, +That I distinctly caught the dulcet sound. +Arriving where the limped waters now +Lav'd the green sward, her eyes she deign'd to raise, +That shot such splendour on me, as I ween +Ne'er glanced from Cytherea's, when her son +Had sped his keenest weapon to her heart. +Upon the opposite bank she stood and smil'd +through her graceful fingers shifted still +The intermingling dyes, which without seed +That lofty land unbosoms. By the stream +Three paces only were we sunder'd: yet +The Hellespont, where Xerxes pass'd it o'er, +(A curb for ever to the pride of man) +Was by Leander not more hateful held +For floating, with inhospitable wave +'Twixt Sestus and Abydos, than by me +That flood, because it gave no passage thence. + +"Strangers ye come, and haply in this place, +That cradled human nature in its birth, +Wond'ring, ye not without suspicion view +My smiles: but that sweet strain of psalmody, +'Thou, Lord! hast made me glad,' will give ye light, +Which may uncloud your minds. And thou, who stand'st +The foremost, and didst make thy suit to me, +Say if aught else thou wish to hear: for I +Came prompt to answer every doubt of thine." + +She spake; and I replied: "I know not how +To reconcile this wave and rustling sound +Of forest leaves, with what I late have heard +Of opposite report." She answering thus: +"I will unfold the cause, whence that proceeds, +Which makes thee wonder; and so purge the cloud +That hath enwraps thee. The First Good, whose joy +Is only in himself, created man +For happiness, and gave this goodly place, +His pledge and earnest of eternal peace. +Favour'd thus highly, through his own defect +He fell, and here made short sojourn; he fell, +And, for the bitterness of sorrow, chang'd +Laughter unblam'd and ever-new delight. +That vapours none, exhal'd from earth beneath, +Or from the waters (which, wherever heat +Attracts them, follow), might ascend thus far +To vex man's peaceful state, this mountain rose +So high toward the heav'n, nor fears the rage +Of elements contending, from that part +Exempted, where the gate his limit bars. +Because the circumambient air throughout +With its first impulse circles still, unless +Aught interpose to cheek or thwart its course; +Upon the summit, which on every side +To visitation of th' impassive air +Is open, doth that motion strike, and makes +Beneath its sway th' umbrageous wood resound: +And in the shaken plant such power resides, +That it impregnates with its efficacy +The voyaging breeze, upon whose subtle plume +That wafted flies abroad; and th' other land +Receiving (as 't is worthy in itself, +Or in the clime, that warms it), doth conceive, +And from its womb produces many a tree +Of various virtue. This when thou hast heard, +The marvel ceases, if in yonder earth +Some plant without apparent seed be found +To fix its fibrous stem. And further learn, +That with prolific foison of all seeds, +This holy plain is fill'd, and in itself +Bears fruit that ne'er was pluck'd on other soil. + +"The water, thou behold'st, springs not from vein, +As stream, that intermittently repairs +And spends his pulse of life, but issues forth +From fountain, solid, undecaying, sure; +And by the will omnific, full supply +Feeds whatsoe'er On either side it pours; +On this devolv'd with power to take away +Remembrance of offence, on that to bring +Remembrance back of every good deed done. +From whence its name of Lethe on this part; +On th' other Eunoe: both of which must first +Be tasted ere it work; the last exceeding +All flavours else. Albeit thy thirst may now +Be well contented, if I here break off, +No more revealing: yet a corollary +I freely give beside: nor deem my words +Less grateful to thee, if they somewhat pass +The stretch of promise. They, whose verse of yore +The golden age recorded and its bliss, +On the Parnassian mountain, of this place +Perhaps had dream'd. Here was man guiltless, here +Perpetual spring and every fruit, and this +The far-fam'd nectar." Turning to the bards, +When she had ceas'd, I noted in their looks +A smile at her conclusion; then my face +Again directed to the lovely dame. + + + + +CANTO XXIX + +Singing, as if enamour'd, she resum'd +And clos'd the song, with "Blessed they whose sins +Are cover'd." Like the wood-nymphs then, that tripp'd +Singly across the sylvan shadows, one +Eager to view and one to 'scape the sun, +So mov'd she on, against the current, up +The verdant rivage. I, her mincing step +Observing, with as tardy step pursued. + +Between us not an hundred paces trod, +The bank, on each side bending equally, +Gave me to face the orient. Nor our way +Far onward brought us, when to me at once +She turn'd, and cried: "My brother! look and hearken." +And lo! a sudden lustre ran across +Through the great forest on all parts, so bright +I doubted whether lightning were abroad; +But that expiring ever in the spleen, +That doth unfold it, and this during still +And waxing still in splendor, made me question +What it might be: and a sweet melody +Ran through the luminous air. Then did I chide +With warrantable zeal the hardihood +Of our first parent, for that there were earth +Stood in obedience to the heav'ns, she only, +Woman, the creature of an hour, endur'd not +Restraint of any veil: which had she borne +Devoutly, joys, ineffable as these, +Had from the first, and long time since, been mine. + +While through that wilderness of primy sweets +That never fade, suspense I walk'd, and yet +Expectant of beatitude more high, +Before us, like a blazing fire, the air +Under the green boughs glow'd; and, for a song, +Distinct the sound of melody was heard. + +O ye thrice holy virgins! for your sakes +If e'er I suffer'd hunger, cold and watching, +Occasion calls on me to crave your bounty. +Now through my breast let Helicon his stream +Pour copious; and Urania with her choir +Arise to aid me: while the verse unfolds +Things that do almost mock the grasp of thought. + +Onward a space, what seem'd seven trees of gold, +The intervening distance to mine eye +Falsely presented; but when I was come +So near them, that no lineament was lost +Of those, with which a doubtful object, seen +Remotely, plays on the misdeeming sense, +Then did the faculty, that ministers +Discourse to reason, these for tapers of gold +Distinguish, and it th' singing trace the sound +"Hosanna." Above, their beauteous garniture +Flam'd with more ample lustre, than the moon +Through cloudless sky at midnight in her full. + +I turn'd me full of wonder to my guide; +And he did answer with a countenance +Charg'd with no less amazement: whence my view +Reverted to those lofty things, which came +So slowly moving towards us, that the bride +Would have outstript them on her bridal day. + +The lady called aloud: "Why thus yet burns +Affection in thee for these living, lights, +And dost not look on that which follows them?" + +I straightway mark'd a tribe behind them walk, +As if attendant on their leaders, cloth'd +With raiment of such whiteness, as on earth +Was never. On my left, the wat'ry gleam +Borrow'd, and gave me back, when there I look'd. +As in a mirror, my left side portray'd. + +When I had chosen on the river's edge +Such station, that the distance of the stream +Alone did separate me; there I stay'd +My steps for clearer prospect, and beheld +The flames go onward, leaving, as they went, +The air behind them painted as with trail +Of liveliest pencils! so distinct were mark'd +All those sev'n listed colours, whence the sun +Maketh his bow, and Cynthia her zone. +These streaming gonfalons did flow beyond +My vision; and ten paces, as I guess, +Parted the outermost. Beneath a sky +So beautiful, came foul and-twenty elders, +By two and two, with flower-de-luces crown'd. + +All sang one song: "Blessed be thou among +The daughters of Adam! and thy loveliness +Blessed for ever!" After that the flowers, +And the fresh herblets, on the opposite brink, +Were free from that elected race; as light +In heav'n doth second light, came after them +Four animals, each crown'd with verdurous leaf. +With six wings each was plum'd, the plumage full +Of eyes, and th' eyes of Argus would be such, +Were they endued with life. Reader, more rhymes +Will not waste in shadowing forth their form: +For other need no straitens, that in this +I may not give my bounty room. But read +Ezekiel; for he paints them, from the north +How he beheld them come by Chebar's flood, +In whirlwind, cloud and fire; and even such +As thou shalt find them character'd by him, +Here were they; save as to the pennons; there, +From him departing, John accords with me. + +The space, surrounded by the four, enclos'd +A car triumphal: on two wheels it came +Drawn at a Gryphon's neck; and he above +Stretch'd either wing uplifted, 'tween the midst +And the three listed hues, on each side three; +So that the wings did cleave or injure none; +And out of sight they rose. The members, far +As he was bird, were golden; white the rest +With vermeil intervein'd. So beautiful +A car in Rome ne'er grac'd Augustus pomp, +Or Africanus': e'en the sun's itself +Were poor to this, that chariot of the sun +Erroneous, which in blazing ruin fell +At Tellus' pray'r devout, by the just doom +Mysterious of all-seeing Jove. Three nymphs +at the right wheel, came circling in smooth dance; +The one so ruddy, that her form had scarce +Been known within a furnace of clear flame: +The next did look, as if the flesh and bones +Were emerald: snow new-fallen seem'd the third. + +Now seem'd the white to lead, the ruddy now; +And from her song who led, the others took +Their treasure, swift or slow. At th' other wheel, +A band quaternion, each in purple clad, +Advanc'd with festal step, as of them one +The rest conducted, one, upon whose front +Three eyes were seen. In rear of all this group, +Two old men I beheld, dissimilar +In raiment, but in port and gesture like, +Solid and mainly grave; of whom the one +Did show himself some favour'd counsellor +Of the great Coan, him, whom nature made +To serve the costliest creature of her tribe. +His fellow mark'd an opposite intent, +Bearing a sword, whose glitterance and keen edge, +E'en as I view'd it with the flood between, +Appall'd me. Next four others I beheld, +Of humble seeming: and, behind them all, +One single old man, sleeping, as he came, +With a shrewd visage. And these seven, each +Like the first troop were habited, but wore +No braid of lilies on their temples wreath'd. +Rather with roses and each vermeil flower, +A sight, but little distant, might have sworn, +That they were all on fire above their brow. + +Whenas the car was o'er against me, straight. +Was heard a thund'ring, at whose voice it seem'd +The chosen multitude were stay'd; for there, +With the first ensigns, made they solemn halt. + + + + +CANTO XXX + +Soon as the polar light, which never knows +Setting nor rising, nor the shadowy veil +Of other cloud than sin, fair ornament +Of the first heav'n, to duty each one there +Safely convoying, as that lower doth +The steersman to his port, stood firmly fix'd; +Forthwith the saintly tribe, who in the van +Between the Gryphon and its radiance came, +Did turn them to the car, as to their rest: +And one, as if commission'd from above, +In holy chant thrice shorted forth aloud: +"Come, spouse, from Libanus!" and all the rest +Took up the song--At the last audit so +The blest shall rise, from forth his cavern each +Uplifting lightly his new-vested flesh, +As, on the sacred litter, at the voice +Authoritative of that elder, sprang +A hundred ministers and messengers +Of life eternal. "Blessed thou! who com'st!" +And, "O," they cried, "from full hands scatter ye +Unwith'ring lilies;" and, so saying, cast +Flowers over head and round them on all sides. + +I have beheld, ere now, at break of day, +The eastern clime all roseate, and the sky +Oppos'd, one deep and beautiful serene, +And the sun's face so shaded, and with mists +Attemper'd at lids rising, that the eye +Long while endur'd the sight: thus in a cloud +Of flowers, that from those hands angelic rose, +And down, within and outside of the car, +Fell showering, in white veil with olive wreath'd, +A virgin in my view appear'd, beneath +Green mantle, rob'd in hue of living flame: + +And o'er my Spirit, that in former days +Within her presence had abode so long, +No shudd'ring terror crept. Mine eyes no more +Had knowledge of her; yet there mov'd from her +A hidden virtue, at whose touch awak'd, +The power of ancient love was strong within me. + +No sooner on my vision streaming, smote +The heav'nly influence, which years past, and e'en +In childhood, thrill'd me, than towards Virgil I +Turn'd me to leftward, panting, like a babe, +That flees for refuge to his mother's breast, +If aught have terrified or work'd him woe: +And would have cried: "There is no dram of blood, +That doth not quiver in me. The old flame +Throws out clear tokens of reviving fire:" +But Virgil had bereav'd us of himself, +Virgil, my best-lov'd father; Virgil, he +To whom I gave me up for safety: nor, +All, our prime mother lost, avail'd to save +My undew'd cheeks from blur of soiling tears. + +"Dante, weep not, that Virgil leaves thee: nay, +Weep thou not yet: behooves thee feel the edge +Of other sword, and thou shalt weep for that." + +As to the prow or stern, some admiral +Paces the deck, inspiriting his crew, +When 'mid the sail-yards all hands ply aloof; +Thus on the left side of the car I saw, +(Turning me at the sound of mine own name, +Which here I am compell'd to register) +The virgin station'd, who before appeared +Veil'd in that festive shower angelical. + +Towards me, across the stream, she bent her eyes; +Though from her brow the veil descending, bound +With foliage of Minerva, suffer'd not +That I beheld her clearly; then with act +Full royal, still insulting o'er her thrall, +Added, as one, who speaking keepeth back +The bitterest saying, to conclude the speech: +"Observe me well. I am, in sooth, I am +Beatrice. What! and hast thou deign'd at last +Approach the mountainnewest not, O man! +Thy happiness is whole?" Down fell mine eyes +On the clear fount, but there, myself espying, +Recoil'd, and sought the greensward: such a weight +Of shame was on my forehead. With a mien +Of that stern majesty, which doth surround +mother's presence to her awe-struck child, +She look'd; a flavour of such bitterness +Was mingled in her pity. There her words +Brake off, and suddenly the angels sang: +"In thee, O gracious Lord, my hope hath been:" +But went no farther than, "Thou Lord, hast set +My feet in ample room." As snow, that lies +Amidst the living rafters on the back +Of Italy congeal'd when drifted high +And closely pil'd by rough Sclavonian blasts, +Breathe but the land whereon no shadow falls, +And straightway melting it distils away, +Like a fire-wasted taper: thus was I, +Without a sigh or tear, or ever these +Did sing, that with the chiming of heav'n's sphere, +Still in their warbling chime: but when the strain +Of dulcet symphony, express'd for me +Their soft compassion, more than could the words +"Virgin, why so consum'st him?" then the ice, +Congeal'd about my bosom, turn'd itself +To spirit and water, and with anguish forth +Gush'd through the lips and eyelids from the heart. + +Upon the chariot's right edge still she stood, +Immovable, and thus address'd her words +To those bright semblances with pity touch'd: +"Ye in th' eternal day your vigils keep, +So that nor night nor slumber, with close stealth, +Conveys from you a single step in all +The goings on of life: thence with more heed +I shape mine answer, for his ear intended, +Who there stands weeping, that the sorrow now +May equal the transgression. Not alone +Through operation of the mighty orbs, +That mark each seed to some predestin'd aim, +As with aspect or fortunate or ill +The constellations meet, but through benign +Largess of heav'nly graces, which rain down +From such a height, as mocks our vision, this man +Was in the freshness of his being, such, +So gifted virtually, that in him +All better habits wond'rously had thriv'd. +The more of kindly strength is in the soil, +So much doth evil seed and lack of culture +Mar it the more, and make it run to wildness. +These looks sometime upheld him; for I show'd +My youthful eyes, and led him by their light +In upright walking. Soon as I had reach'd +The threshold of my second age, and chang'd +My mortal for immortal, then he left me, +And gave himself to others. When from flesh +To spirit I had risen, and increase +Of beauty and of virtue circled me, +I was less dear to him, and valued less. +His steps were turn'd into deceitful ways, +Following false images of good, that make +No promise perfect. Nor avail'd me aught +To sue for inspirations, with the which, +I, both in dreams of night, and otherwise, +Did call him back; of them so little reck'd him, +Such depth he fell, that all device was short +Of his preserving, save that he should view +The children of perdition. To this end +I visited the purlieus of the dead: +And one, who hath conducted him thus high, +Receiv'd my supplications urg'd with weeping. +It were a breaking of God's high decree, +If Lethe should be past, and such food tasted +Without the cost of some repentant tear." + + + + +CANTO XXXI + +"O Thou!" her words she thus without delay +Resuming, turn'd their point on me, to whom +They but with lateral edge seem'd harsh before, +"Say thou, who stand'st beyond the holy stream, +If this be true. A charge so grievous needs +Thine own avowal." On my faculty +Such strange amazement hung, the voice expir'd +Imperfect, ere its organs gave it birth. + +A little space refraining, then she spake: +"What dost thou muse on? Answer me. The wave +On thy remembrances of evil yet +Hath done no injury." A mingled sense +Of fear and of confusion, from my lips +Did such a "Yea" produce, as needed help +Of vision to interpret. As when breaks +In act to be discharg'd, a cross-bow bent +Beyond its pitch, both nerve and bow o'erstretch'd, +The flagging weapon feebly hits the mark; +Thus, tears and sighs forth gushing, did I burst +Beneath the heavy load, and thus my voice +Was slacken'd on its way. She straight began: +"When my desire invited thee to love +The good, which sets a bound to our aspirings, +What bar of thwarting foss or linked chain +Did meet thee, that thou so should'st quit the hope +Of further progress, or what bait of ease +Or promise of allurement led thee on +Elsewhere, that thou elsewhere should'st rather wait?" + +A bitter sigh I drew, then scarce found voice +To answer, hardly to these sounds my lips +Gave utterance, wailing: "Thy fair looks withdrawn, +Things present, with deceitful pleasures, turn'd +My steps aside." She answering spake: "Hadst thou +Been silent, or denied what thou avow'st, +Thou hadst not hid thy sin the more: such eye +Observes it. But whene'er the sinner's cheek +Breaks forth into the precious-streaming tears +Of self-accusing, in our court the wheel +Of justice doth run counter to the edge. +Howe'er that thou may'st profit by thy shame +For errors past, and that henceforth more strength +May arm thee, when thou hear'st the Siren-voice, +Lay thou aside the motive to this grief, +And lend attentive ear, while I unfold +How opposite a way my buried flesh +Should have impell'd thee. Never didst thou spy +In art or nature aught so passing sweet, +As were the limbs, that in their beauteous frame +Enclos'd me, and are scatter'd now in dust. +If sweetest thing thus fail'd thee with my death, +What, afterward, of mortal should thy wish +Have tempted? When thou first hadst felt the dart +Of perishable things, in my departing +For better realms, thy wing thou should'st have prun'd +To follow me, and never stoop'd again +To 'bide a second blow for a slight girl, +Or other gaud as transient and as vain. +The new and inexperienc'd bird awaits, +Twice it may be, or thrice, the fowler's aim; +But in the sight of one, whose plumes are full, +In vain the net is spread, the arrow wing'd." + +I stood, as children silent and asham'd +Stand, list'ning, with their eyes upon the earth, +Acknowledging their fault and self-condemn'd. +And she resum'd: "If, but to hear thus pains thee, +Raise thou thy beard, and lo! what sight shall do!" + +With less reluctance yields a sturdy holm, +Rent from its fibers by a blast, that blows +From off the pole, or from Iarbas' land, +Than I at her behest my visage rais'd: +And thus the face denoting by the beard, +I mark'd the secret sting her words convey'd. + +No sooner lifted I mine aspect up, +Than downward sunk that vision I beheld +Of goodly creatures vanish; and mine eyes +Yet unassur'd and wavering, bent their light +On Beatrice. Towards the animal, +Who joins two natures in one form, she turn'd, +And, even under shadow of her veil, +And parted by the verdant rill, that flow'd +Between, in loveliness appear'd as much +Her former self surpassing, as on earth +All others she surpass'd. Remorseful goads +Shot sudden through me. Each thing else, the more +Its love had late beguil'd me, now the more +I Was loathsome. On my heart so keenly smote +The bitter consciousness, that on the ground +O'erpower'd I fell: and what my state was then, +She knows who was the cause. When now my strength +Flow'd back, returning outward from the heart, +The lady, whom alone I first had seen, +I found above me. "Loose me not," she cried: +"Loose not thy hold;" and lo! had dragg'd me high +As to my neck into the stream, while she, +Still as she drew me after, swept along, +Swift as a shuttle, bounding o'er the wave. + +The blessed shore approaching then was heard +So sweetly, "Tu asperges me," that I +May not remember, much less tell the sound. +The beauteous dame, her arms expanding, clasp'd +My temples, and immerg'd me, where 't was fit +The wave should drench me: and thence raising up, +Within the fourfold dance of lovely nymphs +Presented me so lav'd, and with their arm +They each did cover me. "Here are we nymphs, +And in the heav'n are stars. Or ever earth +Was visited of Beatrice, we +Appointed for her handmaids, tended on her. +We to her eyes will lead thee; but the light +Of gladness that is in them, well to scan, +Those yonder three, of deeper ken than ours, +Thy sight shall quicken." Thus began their song; +And then they led me to the Gryphon's breast, +While, turn'd toward us, Beatrice stood. +"Spare not thy vision. We have stationed thee +Before the emeralds, whence love erewhile +Hath drawn his weapons on thee." As they spake, +A thousand fervent wishes riveted +Mine eyes upon her beaming eyes, that stood +Still fix'd toward the Gryphon motionless. +As the sun strikes a mirror, even thus +Within those orbs the twofold being, shone, +For ever varying, in one figure now +Reflected, now in other. Reader! muse +How wond'rous in my sight it seem'd to mark +A thing, albeit steadfast in itself, +Yet in its imag'd semblance mutable. + +Full of amaze, and joyous, while my soul +Fed on the viand, whereof still desire +Grows with satiety, the other three +With gesture, that declar'd a loftier line, +Advanc'd: to their own carol on they came +Dancing in festive ring angelical. + +"Turn, Beatrice!" was their song: "O turn +Thy saintly sight on this thy faithful one, +Who to behold thee many a wearisome pace +Hath measur'd. Gracious at our pray'r vouchsafe +Unveil to him thy cheeks: that he may mark +Thy second beauty, now conceal'd." O splendour! +O sacred light eternal! who is he +So pale with musing in Pierian shades, +Or with that fount so lavishly imbued, +Whose spirit should not fail him in th' essay +To represent thee such as thou didst seem, +When under cope of the still-chiming heaven +Thou gav'st to open air thy charms reveal'd. + + + + +CANTO XXXII + +Mine eyes with such an eager coveting, +Were bent to rid them of their ten years' thirst, +No other sense was waking: and e'en they +Were fenc'd on either side from heed of aught; +So tangled in its custom'd toils that smile +Of saintly brightness drew me to itself, +When forcibly toward the left my sight +The sacred virgins turn'd; for from their lips +I heard the warning sounds: "Too fix'd a gaze!" + +Awhile my vision labor'd; as when late +Upon the' o'erstrained eyes the sun hath smote: +But soon to lesser object, as the view +Was now recover'd (lesser in respect +To that excess of sensible, whence late +I had perforce been sunder'd) on their right +I mark'd that glorious army wheel, and turn, +Against the sun and sev'nfold lights, their front. +As when, their bucklers for protection rais'd, +A well-rang'd troop, with portly banners curl'd, +Wheel circling, ere the whole can change their ground: +E'en thus the goodly regiment of heav'n +Proceeding, all did pass us, ere the car +Had slop'd his beam. Attendant at the wheels +The damsels turn'd; and on the Gryphon mov'd +The sacred burden, with a pace so smooth, +No feather on him trembled. The fair dame +Who through the wave had drawn me, companied +By Statius and myself, pursued the wheel, +Whose orbit, rolling, mark'd a lesser arch. + +Through the high wood, now void (the more her blame, +Who by the serpent was beguil'd) I past +With step in cadence to the harmony +Angelic. Onward had we mov'd, as far +Perchance as arrow at three several flights +Full wing'd had sped, when from her station down +Descended Beatrice. With one voice +All murmur'd "Adam," circling next a plant +Despoil'd of flowers and leaf on every bough. +Its tresses, spreading more as more they rose, +Were such, as 'midst their forest wilds for height +The Indians might have gaz'd at. "Blessed thou! +Gryphon, whose beak hath never pluck'd that tree +Pleasant to taste: for hence the appetite +Was warp'd to evil." Round the stately trunk +Thus shouted forth the rest, to whom return'd +The animal twice-gender'd: "Yea: for so +The generation of the just are sav'd." +And turning to the chariot-pole, to foot +He drew it of the widow'd branch, and bound +There left unto the stock whereon it grew. + +As when large floods of radiance from above +Stream, with that radiance mingled, which ascends +Next after setting of the scaly sign, +Our plants then burgeon, and each wears anew +His wonted colours, ere the sun have yok'd +Beneath another star his flamy steeds; +Thus putting forth a hue, more faint than rose, +And deeper than the violet, was renew'd +The plant, erewhile in all its branches bare. + +Unearthly was the hymn, which then arose. +I understood it not, nor to the end +Endur'd the harmony. Had I the skill +To pencil forth, how clos'd th' unpitying eyes +Slumb'ring, when Syrinx warbled, (eyes that paid +So dearly for their watching,) then like painter, +That with a model paints, I might design +The manner of my falling into sleep. +But feign who will the slumber cunningly; +I pass it by to when I wak'd, and tell +How suddenly a flash of splendour rent +The curtain of my sleep, and one cries out: +"Arise, what dost thou?" As the chosen three, +On Tabor's mount, admitted to behold +The blossoming of that fair tree, whose fruit +Is coveted of angels, and doth make +Perpetual feast in heaven, to themselves +Returning at the word, whence deeper sleeps +Were broken, that they their tribe diminish'd saw, +Both Moses and Elias gone, and chang'd +The stole their master wore: thus to myself +Returning, over me beheld I stand +The piteous one, who cross the stream had brought +My steps. "And where," all doubting, I exclaim'd, +"Is Beatrice?"--"See her," she replied, +"Beneath the fresh leaf seated on its root. +Behold th' associate choir that circles her. +The others, with a melody more sweet +And more profound, journeying to higher realms, +Upon the Gryphon tend." If there her words +Were clos'd, I know not; but mine eyes had now +Ta'en view of her, by whom all other thoughts +Were barr'd admittance. On the very ground +Alone she sat, as she had there been left +A guard upon the wain, which I beheld +Bound to the twyform beast. The seven nymphs +Did make themselves a cloister round about her, +And in their hands upheld those lights secure +From blast septentrion and the gusty south. + +"A little while thou shalt be forester here: +And citizen shalt be forever with me, +Of that true Rome, wherein Christ dwells a Roman +To profit the misguided world, keep now +Thine eyes upon the car; and what thou seest, +Take heed thou write, returning to that place." + +Thus Beatrice: at whose feet inclin'd +Devout, at her behest, my thought and eyes, +I, as she bade, directed. Never fire, +With so swift motion, forth a stormy cloud +Leap'd downward from the welkin's farthest bound, +As I beheld the bird of Jove descending +Pounce on the tree, and, as he rush'd, the rind, +Disparting crush beneath him, buds much more +And leaflets. On the car with all his might +He struck, whence, staggering like a ship, it reel'd, +At random driv'n, to starboard now, o'ercome, +And now to larboard, by the vaulting waves. + +Next springing up into the chariot's womb +A fox I saw, with hunger seeming pin'd +Of all good food. But, for his ugly sins +The saintly maid rebuking him, away +Scamp'ring he turn'd, fast as his hide-bound corpse +Would bear him. Next, from whence before he came, +I saw the eagle dart into the hull +O' th' car, and leave it with his feathers lin'd; +And then a voice, like that which issues forth +From heart with sorrow riv'd, did issue forth +From heav'n, and, "O poor bark of mine!" it cried, +"How badly art thou freighted!" Then, it seem'd, +That the earth open'd between either wheel, +And I beheld a dragon issue thence, +That through the chariot fix'd his forked train; +And like a wasp that draggeth back the sting, +So drawing forth his baleful train, he dragg'd +Part of the bottom forth, and went his way +Exulting. What remain'd, as lively turf +With green herb, so did clothe itself with plumes, +Which haply had with purpose chaste and kind +Been offer'd; and therewith were cloth'd the wheels, +Both one and other, and the beam, so quickly +A sigh were not breath'd sooner. Thus transform'd, +The holy structure, through its several parts, +Did put forth heads, three on the beam, and one +On every side; the first like oxen horn'd, +But with a single horn upon their front +The four. Like monster sight hath never seen. +O'er it methought there sat, secure as rock +On mountain's lofty top, a shameless whore, +Whose ken rov'd loosely round her. At her side, +As 't were that none might bear her off, I saw +A giant stand; and ever, and anon +They mingled kisses. But, her lustful eyes +Chancing on me to wander, that fell minion +Scourg'd her from head to foot all o'er; then full +Of jealousy, and fierce with rage, unloos'd +The monster, and dragg'd on, so far across +The forest, that from me its shades alone +Shielded the harlot and the new-form'd brute. + + +CANTO XXXIII + +"The heathen, Lord! are come!" responsive thus, +The trinal now, and now the virgin band +Quaternion, their sweet psalmody began, +Weeping; and Beatrice listen'd, sad +And sighing, to the song', in such a mood, +That Mary, as she stood beside the cross, +Was scarce more chang'd. But when they gave her place +To speak, then, risen upright on her feet, +She, with a colour glowing bright as fire, +Did answer: "Yet a little while, and ye +Shall see me not; and, my beloved sisters, +Again a little while, and ye shall see me." + +Before her then she marshall'd all the seven, +And, beck'ning only motion'd me, the dame, +And that remaining sage, to follow her. + +So on she pass'd; and had not set, I ween, +Her tenth step to the ground, when with mine eyes +Her eyes encounter'd; and, with visage mild, +"So mend thy pace," she cried, "that if my words +Address thee, thou mayst still be aptly plac'd +To hear them." Soon as duly to her side +I now had hasten'd: "Brother!" she began, +"Why mak'st thou no attempt at questioning, +As thus we walk together?" Like to those +Who, speaking with too reverent an awe +Before their betters, draw not forth the voice +Alive unto their lips, befell me shell +That I in sounds imperfect thus began: +"Lady! what I have need of, that thou know'st, +And what will suit my need." She answering thus: +"Of fearfulness and shame, I will, that thou +Henceforth do rid thee: that thou speak no more, +As one who dreams. Thus far be taught of me: +The vessel, which thou saw'st the serpent break, +Was and is not: let him, who hath the blame, +Hope not to scare God's vengeance with a sop. +Without an heir for ever shall not be +That eagle, he, who left the chariot plum'd, +Which monster made it first and next a prey. +Plainly I view, and therefore speak, the stars +E'en now approaching, whose conjunction, free +From all impediment and bar, brings on +A season, in the which, one sent from God, +(Five hundred, five, and ten, do mark him out) +That foul one, and th' accomplice of her guilt, +The giant, both shall slay. And if perchance +My saying, dark as Themis or as Sphinx, +Fail to persuade thee, (since like them it foils +The intellect with blindness) yet ere long +Events shall be the Naiads, that will solve +This knotty riddle, and no damage light +On flock or field. Take heed; and as these words +By me are utter'd, teach them even so +To those who live that life, which is a race +To death: and when thou writ'st them, keep in mind +Not to conceal how thou hast seen the plant, +That twice hath now been spoil'd. This whoso robs, +This whoso plucks, with blasphemy of deed +Sins against God, who for his use alone +Creating hallow'd it. For taste of this, +In pain and in desire, five thousand years +And upward, the first soul did yearn for him, +Who punish'd in himself the fatal gust. + +"Thy reason slumbers, if it deem this height +And summit thus inverted of the plant, +Without due cause: and were not vainer thoughts, +As Elsa's numbing waters, to thy soul, +And their fond pleasures had not dyed it dark +As Pyramus the mulberry, thou hadst seen, +In such momentous circumstance alone, +God's equal justice morally implied +In the forbidden tree. But since I mark thee +In understanding harden'd into stone, +And, to that hardness, spotted too and stain'd, +So that thine eye is dazzled at my word, +I will, that, if not written, yet at least +Painted thou take it in thee, for the cause, +That one brings home his staff inwreath'd with palm." + +I thus: "As wax by seal, that changeth not +Its impress, now is stamp'd my brain by thee. +But wherefore soars thy wish'd-for speech so high +Beyond my sight, that loses it the more, +The more it strains to reach it?"--"To the end +That thou mayst know," she answer'd straight, "the school, +That thou hast follow'd; and how far behind, +When following my discourse, its learning halts: +And mayst behold your art, from the divine +As distant, as the disagreement is +'Twixt earth and heaven's most high and rapturous orb." + +"I not remember," I replied, "that e'er +I was estrang'd from thee, nor for such fault +Doth conscience chide me." Smiling she return'd: +"If thou canst, not remember, call to mind +How lately thou hast drunk of Lethe's wave; +And, sure as smoke doth indicate a flame, +In that forgetfulness itself conclude +Blame from thy alienated will incurr'd. +From henceforth verily my words shall be +As naked as will suit them to appear +In thy unpractis'd view." More sparkling now, +And with retarded course the sun possess'd +The circle of mid-day, that varies still +As th' aspect varies of each several clime, +When, as one, sent in vaward of a troop +For escort, pauses, if perchance he spy +Vestige of somewhat strange and rare: so paus'd +The sev'nfold band, arriving at the verge +Of a dun umbrage hoar, such as is seen, +Beneath green leaves and gloomy branches, oft +To overbrow a bleak and alpine cliff. +And, where they stood, before them, as it seem'd, +Tigris and Euphrates both beheld, +Forth from one fountain issue; and, like friends, +Linger at parting. "O enlight'ning beam! +O glory of our kind! beseech thee say +What water this, which from one source deriv'd +Itself removes to distance from itself?" + +To such entreaty answer thus was made: +"Entreat Matilda, that she teach thee this." + +And here, as one, who clears himself of blame +Imputed, the fair dame return'd: "Of me +He this and more hath learnt; and I am safe +That Lethe's water hath not hid it from him." + +And Beatrice: "Some more pressing care +That oft the memory 'reeves, perchance hath made +His mind's eye dark. But lo! where Eunoe cows! +Lead thither; and, as thou art wont, revive +His fainting virtue." As a courteous spirit, +That proffers no excuses, but as soon +As he hath token of another's will, +Makes it his own; when she had ta'en me, thus +The lovely maiden mov'd her on, and call'd +To Statius with an air most lady-like: +"Come thou with him." Were further space allow'd, +Then, Reader, might I sing, though but in part, +That beverage, with whose sweetness I had ne'er +Been sated. But, since all the leaves are full, +Appointed for this second strain, mine art +With warning bridle checks me. I return'd +From the most holy wave, regenerate, +If 'en as new plants renew'd with foliage new, +Pure and made apt for mounting to the stars. + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Vision of Purgatory, Part 5, by Dante Alighieri +Translated By The Rev. H. F. 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