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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 Paradise, Part 2. + +Author: Dante Alighieri + +Release Date: August 2, 2004 [EBook #8797] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VISION OF PARADISE, PART 2. *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + +<br> +<hr> +<br><br><br><br><br><br> + + + +<center> +<h1>THE VISION</h1><br> +<h2>OF,</h2><br> +<h1>HELL, PURGATORY, AND PARADISE</h1><br> +<h2>BY</h2><br> +<h1>DANTE ALIGHIERI</h1> +<br><br><br> +<br><br><br> +<h2>PARADISE</h2> +<h3>Part Two</h3> + +<br><br><br> +<h3>TRANSLATED BY</h3><br> +<h2>THE REV. H. F. CARY, M.A.</h2> +<br><br> +<h4>Click on Any Image to Enlarge It</h4> + +<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>PARADISE</h1> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<h2>LIST OF CANTOS</h2> +</center> + +<center> +<table summary="Contents"> +<tr><td> + + + + +<a href="#15">Canto 15</a><br> +<a href="#16">Canto 16</a><br> +<a href="#17">Canto 17</a><br> +<a href="#18">Canto 18</a><br> +<a href="#19">Canto 19</a><br> +<a href="#20">Canto 20</a><br> +<a href="#21">Canto 21</a><br><br> + + + + + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<table summary="Paradise"> +<tr><td> + + + +<br><br> +<a name="15"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO XV</h2> +<br> + +<p>True love, that ever shows itself as clear<br> +In kindness, as loose appetite in wrong,<br> +Silenced that lyre harmonious, and still'd<br> +The sacred chords, that are by heav'n's right hand<br> +Unwound and tighten'd, flow to righteous prayers<br> +Should they not hearken, who, to give me will<br> +For praying, in accordance thus were mute?<br> +He hath in sooth good cause for endless grief,<br> +Who, for the love of thing that lasteth not,<br> +Despoils himself forever of that love.<br> +<br> As oft along the still and pure serene,<br> +At nightfall, glides a sudden trail of fire,<br> +Attracting with involuntary heed<br> +The eye to follow it, erewhile at rest,<br> +And seems some star that shifted place in heav'n,<br> +Only that, whence it kindles, none is lost,<br> +And it is soon extinct; thus from the horn,<br> +That on the dexter of the cross extends,<br> +Down to its foot, one luminary ran<br> +From mid the cluster shone there; yet no gem<br> +Dropp'd from its foil; and through the beamy list<br> +Like flame in alabaster, glow'd its course.<br> +<br> So forward stretch'd him (if of credence aught<br> +Our greater muse may claim) the pious ghost<br> +Of old Anchises, in the' Elysian bower,<br> +When he perceiv'd his son. "O thou, my blood!<br> +O most exceeding grace divine! to whom,<br> +As now to thee, hath twice the heav'nly gate<br> +Been e'er unclos'd?" so spake the light; whence I<br> +Turn'd me toward him; then unto my dame<br> +My sight directed, and on either side<br> +Amazement waited me; for in her eyes<br> +Was lighted such a smile, I thought that mine<br> +Had div'd unto the bottom of my grace<br> +And of my bliss in Paradise. Forthwith<br> +To hearing and to sight grateful alike,<br> +The spirit to his proem added things<br> +I understood not, so profound he spake;<br> +Yet not of choice but through necessity<br> +Mysterious; for his high conception scar'd<br> +Beyond the mark of mortals. When the flight<br> +Of holy transport had so spent its rage,<br> +That nearer to the level of our thought<br> +The speech descended, the first sounds I heard<br> +Were, "Best he thou, Triunal Deity!<br> +That hast such favour in my seed vouchsaf'd!"<br> +Then follow'd: "No unpleasant thirst, tho' long,<br> +Which took me reading in the sacred book,<br> +Whose leaves or white or dusky never change,<br> +Thou hast allay'd, my son, within this light,<br> +From whence my voice thou hear'st; more thanks to her.<br> +Who for such lofty mounting has with plumes<br> +Begirt thee. Thou dost deem thy thoughts to me<br> +From him transmitted, who is first of all,<br> +E'en as all numbers ray from unity;<br> +And therefore dost not ask me who I am,<br> +Or why to thee more joyous I appear,<br> +Than any other in this gladsome throng.<br> +The truth is as thou deem'st; for in this hue<br> +Both less and greater in that mirror look,<br> +In which thy thoughts, or ere thou think'st, are shown.<br> +But, that the love, which keeps me wakeful ever,<br> +Urging with sacred thirst of sweet desire,<br> +May be contended fully, let thy voice,<br> +Fearless, and frank and jocund, utter forth<br> +Thy will distinctly, utter forth the wish,<br> +Whereto my ready answer stands decreed."<br> +<br> I turn'd me to Beatrice; and she heard<br> +Ere I had spoken, smiling, an assent,<br> +That to my will gave wings; and I began<br> +"To each among your tribe, what time ye kenn'd<br> +The nature, in whom naught unequal dwells,<br> +Wisdom and love were in one measure dealt;<br> +For that they are so equal in the sun,<br> +From whence ye drew your radiance and your heat,<br> +As makes all likeness scant. But will and means,<br> +In mortals, for the cause ye well discern,<br> +With unlike wings are fledge. A mortal I<br> +Experience inequality like this,<br> +And therefore give no thanks, but in the heart,<br> +For thy paternal greeting. This howe'er<br> +I pray thee, living topaz! that ingemm'st<br> +This precious jewel, let me hear thy name."<br> +<br> "I am thy root, O leaf! whom to expect<br> +Even, hath pleas'd me:" thus the prompt reply<br> +Prefacing, next it added: "he, of whom<br> +Thy kindred appellation comes, and who,<br> +These hundred years and more, on its first ledge<br> +Hath circuited the mountain, was my son<br> +And thy great grandsire. Well befits, his long<br> +Endurance should be shorten'd by thy deeds.<br> +<br> "Florence, within her ancient limit-mark,<br> +Which calls her still to matin prayers and noon,<br> +Was chaste and sober, and abode in peace.<br> +She had no armlets and no head-tires then,<br> +No purfled dames, no zone, that caught the eye<br> +More than the person did. Time was not yet,<br> +When at his daughter's birth the sire grew pale.<br> +For fear the age and dowry should exceed<br> +On each side just proportion. House was none<br> +Void of its family; nor yet had come<br> +Hardanapalus, to exhibit feats<br> +Of chamber prowess. Montemalo yet<br> +O'er our suburban turret rose; as much<br> +To be surpass in fall, as in its rising.<br> +I saw Bellincione Berti walk abroad<br> +In leathern girdle and a clasp of bone;<br> +And, with no artful colouring on her cheeks,<br> +His lady leave the glass. The sons I saw<br> +Of Nerli and of Vecchio well content<br> +With unrob'd jerkin; and their good dames handling<br> +The spindle and the flax; O happy they!<br> +Each sure of burial in her native land,<br> +And none left desolate a-bed for France!<br> +One wak'd to tend the cradle, hushing it<br> +With sounds that lull'd the parent's infancy:<br> +Another, with her maidens, drawing off<br> +The tresses from the distaff, lectur'd them<br> +Old tales of Troy and Fesole and Rome.<br> +A Salterello and Cianghella we<br> +Had held as strange a marvel, as ye would<br> +A Cincinnatus or Cornelia now.<br> +<br> "In such compos'd and seemly fellowship,<br> +Such faithful and such fair equality,<br> +In so sweet household, Mary at my birth<br> +Bestow'd me, call'd on with loud cries; and there<br> +In your old baptistery, I was made<br> +Christian at once and Cacciaguida; as were<br> +My brethren, Eliseo and Moronto.<br> +<br> "From Valdipado came to me my spouse,<br> +And hence thy surname grew. I follow'd then<br> +The Emperor Conrad; and his knighthood he<br> +Did gird on me; in such good part he took<br> +My valiant service. After him I went<br> +To testify against that evil law,<br> +Whose people, by the shepherd's fault, possess<br> +Your right, usurping. There, by that foul crew<br> +Was I releas'd from the deceitful world,<br> +Whose base affection many a spirit soils,<br> +And from the martyrdom came to this peace."</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="16"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO XVI</h2> +<br> + +<p>O slight respect of man's nobility!<br> +I never shall account it marvelous,<br> +That our infirm affection here below<br> +Thou mov'st to boasting, when I could not choose,<br> +E'en in that region of unwarp'd desire,<br> +In heav'n itself, but make my vaunt in thee!<br> +Yet cloak thou art soon shorten'd, for that time,<br> +Unless thou be eked out from day to day,<br> +Goes round thee with his shears. Resuming then<br> +With greeting such, as Rome, was first to bear,<br> +But since hath disaccustom'd I began;<br> +And Beatrice, that a little space<br> +Was sever'd, smil'd reminding me of her,<br> +Whose cough embolden'd (as the story holds)<br> +To first offence the doubting Guenever.<br> +<br> "You are my sire," said I, "you give me heart<br> +Freely to speak my thought: above myself<br> +You raise me. Through so many streams with joy<br> +My soul is fill'd, that gladness wells from it;<br> +So that it bears the mighty tide, and bursts not<br> +Say then, my honour'd stem! what ancestors<br> +Where those you sprang from, and what years were mark'd<br> +In your first childhood? Tell me of the fold,<br> +That hath Saint John for guardian, what was then<br> +Its state, and who in it were highest seated?"<br> +<br> As embers, at the breathing of the wind,<br> +Their flame enliven, so that light I saw<br> +Shine at my blandishments; and, as it grew<br> +More fair to look on, so with voice more sweet,<br> +Yet not in this our modern phrase, forthwith<br> +It answer'd: "From the day, when it was said<br> +'Hail Virgin!' to the throes, by which my mother,<br> +Who now is sainted, lighten'd her of me<br> +Whom she was heavy with, this fire had come,<br> +Five hundred fifty times and thrice, its beams<br> +To reilumine underneath the foot<br> +Of its own lion. They, of whom I sprang,<br> +And I, had there our birth-place, where the last<br> +Partition of our city first is reach'd<br> +By him, that runs her annual game. Thus much<br> +Suffice of my forefathers: who they were,<br> +And whence they hither came, more honourable<br> +It is to pass in silence than to tell.<br> +All those, who in that time were there from Mars<br> +Until the Baptist, fit to carry arms,<br> +Were but the fifth of them this day alive.<br> +But then the citizen's blood, that now is mix'd<br> +From Campi and Certaldo and Fighine,<br> +Ran purely through the last mechanic's veins.<br> +O how much better were it, that these people<br> +Were neighbours to you, and that at Galluzzo<br> +And at Trespiano, ye should have your bound'ry,<br> +Than to have them within, and bear the stench<br> +Of Aguglione's hind, and Signa's, him,<br> +That hath his eye already keen for bart'ring!<br> +Had not the people, which of all the world<br> +Degenerates most, been stepdame unto Caesar,<br> +But, as a mother, gracious to her son;<br> +Such one, as hath become a Florentine,<br> +And trades and traffics, had been turn'd adrift<br> +To Simifonte, where his grandsire ply'd<br> +The beggar's craft. The Conti were possess'd<br> +Of Montemurlo still: the Cerchi still<br> +Were in Acone's parish; nor had haply<br> +From Valdigrieve past the Buondelmonte.<br> +The city's malady hath ever source<br> +In the confusion of its persons, as<br> +The body's, in variety of food:<br> +And the blind bull falls with a steeper plunge,<br> +Than the blind lamb; and oftentimes one sword<br> +Doth more and better execution,<br> +Than five. Mark Luni, Urbisaglia mark,<br> +How they are gone, and after them how go<br> +Chiusi and Sinigaglia; and 't will seem<br> +No longer new or strange to thee to hear,<br> +That families fail, when cities have their end.<br> +All things, that appertain t' ye, like yourselves,<br> +Are mortal: but mortality in some<br> +Ye mark not, they endure so long, and you<br> +Pass by so suddenly. And as the moon<br> +Doth, by the rolling of her heav'nly sphere,<br> +Hide and reveal the strand unceasingly;<br> +So fortune deals with Florence. Hence admire not<br> +At what of them I tell thee, whose renown<br> +Time covers, the first Florentines. I saw<br> +The Ughi, Catilini and Filippi,<br> +The Alberichi, Greci and Ormanni,<br> +Now in their wane, illustrious citizens:<br> +And great as ancient, of Sannella him,<br> +With him of Arca saw, and Soldanieri<br> +And Ardinghi, and Bostichi. At the poop,<br> +That now is laden with new felony,<br> +So cumb'rous it may speedily sink the bark,<br> +The Ravignani sat, of whom is sprung<br> +The County Guido, and whoso hath since<br> +His title from the fam'd Bellincione ta'en.<br> +Fair governance was yet an art well priz'd<br> +By him of Pressa: Galigaio show'd<br> +The gilded hilt and pommel, in his house.<br> +The column, cloth'd with verrey, still was seen<br> +Unshaken: the Sacchetti still were great,<br> +Giouchi, Sifanti, Galli and Barucci,<br> +With them who blush to hear the bushel nam'd.<br> +Of the Calfucci still the branchy trunk<br> +Was in its strength: and to the curule chairs<br> +Sizii and Arigucci yet were drawn.<br> +How mighty them I saw, whom since their pride<br> +Hath undone! and in all her goodly deeds<br> +Florence was by the bullets of bright gold<br> +O'erflourish'd. Such the sires of those, who now,<br> +As surely as your church is vacant, flock<br> +Into her consistory, and at leisure<br> +There stall them and grow fat. The o'erweening brood,<br> +That plays the dragon after him that flees,<br> +But unto such, as turn and show the tooth,<br> +Ay or the purse, is gentle as a lamb,<br> +Was on its rise, but yet so slight esteem'd,<br> +That Ubertino of Donati grudg'd<br> +His father-in-law should yoke him to its tribe.<br> +Already Caponsacco had descended<br> +Into the mart from Fesole: and Giuda<br> +And Infangato were good citizens.<br> +A thing incredible I tell, tho' true:<br> +The gateway, named from those of Pera, led<br> +Into the narrow circuit of your walls.<br> +Each one, who bears the sightly quarterings<br> +Of the great Baron (he whose name and worth<br> +The festival of Thomas still revives)<br> +His knighthood and his privilege retain'd;<br> +Albeit one, who borders them With gold,<br> +This day is mingled with the common herd.<br> +In Borgo yet the Gualterotti dwelt,<br> +And Importuni: well for its repose<br> +Had it still lack'd of newer neighbourhood.<br> +The house, from whence your tears have had their spring,<br> +Through the just anger that hath murder'd ye<br> +And put a period to your gladsome days,<br> +Was honour'd, it, and those consorted with it.<br> +O Buondelmonte! what ill counseling<br> +Prevail'd on thee to break the plighted bond<br> +Many, who now are weeping, would rejoice,<br> +Had God to Ema giv'n thee, the first time<br> +Thou near our city cam'st. But so was doom'd:<br> +On that maim'd stone set up to guard the bridge,<br> +At thy last peace, the victim, Florence! fell.<br> +With these and others like to them, I saw<br> +Florence in such assur'd tranquility,<br> +She had no cause at which to grieve: with these<br> +Saw her so glorious and so just, that ne'er<br> +The lily from the lance had hung reverse,<br> +Or through division been with vermeil dyed."</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/16-143.jpg"><img alt="16-143th.jpg (28K)" src="images/16-143th.jpg" height="455" width="432"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<a name="17"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO XVII</h2> +<br> + +<p>Such as the youth, who came to Clymene<br> +To certify himself of that reproach,<br> +Which had been fasten'd on him, (he whose end<br> +Still makes the fathers chary to their sons),<br> +E'en such was I; nor unobserv'd was such<br> +Of Beatrice, and that saintly lamp,<br> +Who had erewhile for me his station mov'd;<br> +When thus by lady: "Give thy wish free vent,<br> +That it may issue, bearing true report<br> +Of the mind's impress; not that aught thy words<br> +May to our knowledge add, but to the end,<br> +That thou mayst use thyself to own thy thirst<br> +And men may mingle for thee when they hear."<br> +<br> "O plant! from whence I spring! rever'd and lov'd!<br> +Who soar'st so high a pitch, thou seest as clear,<br> +As earthly thought determines two obtuse<br> +In one triangle not contain'd, so clear<br> +Dost see contingencies, ere in themselves<br> +Existent, looking at the point whereto<br> +All times are present, I, the whilst I scal'd<br> +With Virgil the soul purifying mount,<br> +And visited the nether world of woe,<br> +Touching my future destiny have heard<br> +Words grievous, though I feel me on all sides<br> +Well squar'd to fortune's blows. Therefore my will<br> +Were satisfied to know the lot awaits me,<br> +The arrow, seen beforehand, slacks its flight."<br> +<br> So said I to the brightness, which erewhile<br> +To me had spoken, and my will declar'd,<br> +As Beatrice will'd, explicitly.<br> +Nor with oracular response obscure,<br> +Such, as or ere the Lamb of God was slain,<br> +Beguil'd the credulous nations; but, in terms<br> +Precise and unambiguous lore, replied<br> +The spirit of paternal love, enshrin'd,<br> +Yet in his smile apparent; and thus spake:<br> +"Contingency, unfolded not to view<br> +Upon the tablet of your mortal mold,<br> +Is all depictur'd in the' eternal sight;<br> +But hence deriveth not necessity,<br> +More then the tall ship, hurried down the flood,<br> +Doth from the vision, that reflects the scene.<br> +From thence, as to the ear sweet harmony<br> +From organ comes, so comes before mine eye<br> +The time prepar'd for thee. Such as driv'n out<br> +From Athens, by his cruel stepdame's wiles,<br> +Hippolytus departed, such must thou<br> +Depart from Florence. This they wish, and this<br> +Contrive, and will ere long effectuate, there,<br> +Where gainful merchandize is made of Christ,<br> +Throughout the livelong day. The common cry,<br> +Will, as 't is ever wont, affix the blame<br> +Unto the party injur'd: but the truth<br> +Shall, in the vengeance it dispenseth, find<br> +A faithful witness. Thou shall leave each thing<br> +Belov'd most dearly: this is the first shaft<br> +Shot from the bow of exile. Thou shalt prove<br> +How salt the savour is of other's bread,<br> +How hard the passage to descend and climb<br> +By other's stairs, But that shall gall thee most<br> +Will be the worthless and vile company,<br> +With whom thou must be thrown into these straits.<br> +For all ungrateful, impious all and mad,<br> +Shall turn 'gainst thee: but in a little while<br> +Theirs and not thine shall be the crimson'd brow<br> +Their course shall so evince their brutishness<br> +T' have ta'en thy stand apart shall well become thee.<br> +<br> "First refuge thou must find, first place of rest,<br> +In the great Lombard's courtesy, who bears<br> +Upon the ladder perch'd the sacred bird.<br> +He shall behold thee with such kind regard,<br> +That 'twixt ye two, the contrary to that<br> +Which falls 'twixt other men, the granting shall<br> +Forerun the asking. With him shalt thou see<br> +That mortal, who was at his birth impress<br> +So strongly from this star, that of his deeds<br> +The nations shall take note. His unripe age<br> +Yet holds him from observance; for these wheels<br> +Only nine years have compass him about.<br> +But, ere the Gascon practice on great Harry,<br> +Sparkles of virtue shall shoot forth in him,<br> +In equal scorn of labours and of gold.<br> +His bounty shall be spread abroad so widely,<br> +As not to let the tongues e'en of his foes<br> +Be idle in its praise. Look thou to him<br> +And his beneficence: for he shall cause<br> +Reversal of their lot to many people,<br> +Rich men and beggars interchanging fortunes.<br> +And thou shalt bear this written in thy soul<br> +Of him, but tell it not;" and things he told<br> +Incredible to those who witness them;<br> +Then added: "So interpret thou, my son,<br> +What hath been told thee.—Lo! the ambushment<br> +That a few circling seasons hide for thee!<br> +Yet envy not thy neighbours: time extends<br> +Thy span beyond their treason's chastisement."<br> +<br> Soon, as the saintly spirit, by his silence,<br> +Had shown the web, which I had streteh'd for him<br> +Upon the warp, was woven, I began,<br> +As one, who in perplexity desires<br> +Counsel of other, wise, benign and friendly:<br> +"My father! well I mark how time spurs on<br> +Toward me, ready to inflict the blow,<br> +Which falls most heavily on him, who most<br> +Abandoned himself. Therefore 't is good<br> +I should forecast, that driven from the place<br> +Most dear to me, I may not lose myself<br> +All others by my song. Down through the world<br> +Of infinite mourning, and along the mount<br> +From whose fair height my lady's eyes did lift me,<br> +And after through this heav'n from light to light,<br> +Have I learnt that, which if I tell again,<br> +It may with many woefully disrelish;<br> +And, if I am a timid friend to truth,<br> +I fear my life may perish among those,<br> +To whom these days shall be of ancient date."<br> +<br> The brightness, where enclos'd the treasure smil'd,<br> +Which I had found there, first shone glisteningly,<br> +Like to a golden mirror in the sun;<br> +Next answer'd: "Conscience, dimm'd or by its own<br> +Or other's shame, will feel thy saying sharp.<br> +Thou, notwithstanding, all deceit remov'd,<br> +See the whole vision be made manifest.<br> +And let them wince who have their withers wrung.<br> +What though, when tasted first, thy voice shall prove<br> +Unwelcome, on digestion it will turn<br> +To vital nourishment. The cry thou raisest,<br> +Shall, as the wind doth, smite the proudest summits;<br> +Which is of honour no light argument,<br> +For this there only have been shown to thee,<br> +Throughout these orbs, the mountain, and the deep,<br> +Spirits, whom fame hath note of. For the mind<br> +Of him, who hears, is loth to acquiesce<br> +And fix its faith, unless the instance brought<br> +Be palpable, and proof apparent urge."</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="18"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO XVIII</h2> +<br> +<p> +<br> +CANTO XVIII</p> + +<p>Now in his word, sole, ruminating, joy'd<br> +That blessed spirit; and I fed on mine,<br> +Tempting the sweet with bitter: she meanwhile,<br> +Who led me unto God, admonish'd: "Muse<br> +On other thoughts: bethink thee, that near Him<br> +I dwell, who recompenseth every wrong."<br> +<br> At the sweet sounds of comfort straight I turn'd;<br> +And, in the saintly eyes what love was seen,<br> +I leave in silence here: nor through distrust<br> +Of my words only, but that to such bliss<br> +The mind remounts not without aid. Thus much<br> +Yet may I speak; that, as I gaz'd on her,<br> +Affection found no room for other wish.<br> +While the everlasting pleasure, that did full<br> +On Beatrice shine, with second view<br> +From her fair countenance my gladden'd soul<br> +Contented; vanquishing me with a beam<br> +Of her soft smile, she spake: "Turn thee, and list.<br> +These eyes are not thy only Paradise."<br> +<br> As here we sometimes in the looks may see<br> +Th' affection mark'd, when that its sway hath ta'en<br> +The spirit wholly; thus the hallow'd light,<br> +To whom I turn'd, flashing, bewray'd its will<br> +To talk yet further with me, and began:<br> +"On this fifth lodgment of the tree, whose life<br> +Is from its top, whose fruit is ever fair<br> +And leaf unwith'ring, blessed spirits abide,<br> +That were below, ere they arriv'd in heav'n,<br> +So mighty in renown, as every muse<br> +Might grace her triumph with them. On the horns<br> +Look therefore of the cross: he, whom I name,<br> +Shall there enact, as doth in summer cloud<br> +Its nimble fire." Along the cross I saw,<br> +At the repeated name of Joshua,<br> +A splendour gliding; nor, the word was said,<br> +Ere it was done: then, at the naming saw<br> +Of the great Maccabee, another move<br> +With whirling speed; and gladness was the scourge<br> +Unto that top. The next for Charlemagne<br> +And for the peer Orlando, two my gaze<br> +Pursued, intently, as the eye pursues<br> +A falcon flying. Last, along the cross,<br> +William, and Renard, and Duke Godfrey drew<br> +My ken, and Robert Guiscard. And the soul,<br> +Who spake with me among the other lights<br> +Did move away, and mix; and with the choir<br> +Of heav'nly songsters prov'd his tuneful skill.<br> +<br> To Beatrice on my right l bent,<br> +Looking for intimation or by word<br> +Or act, what next behoov'd: and did descry<br> +Such mere effulgence in her eyes, such joy,<br> +It past all former wont. And, as by sense<br> +Of new delight, the man, who perseveres<br> +In good deeds doth perceive from day to day<br> +His virtue growing; I e'en thus perceiv'd<br> +Of my ascent, together with the heav'n<br> +The circuit widen'd, noting the increase<br> +Of beauty in that wonder. Like the change<br> +In a brief moment on some maiden's cheek,<br> +Which from its fairness doth discharge the weight<br> +Of pudency, that stain'd it; such in her,<br> +And to mine eyes so sudden was the change,<br> +Through silvery whiteness of that temperate star,<br> +Whose sixth orb now enfolded us. I saw,<br> +Within that Jovial cresset, the clear sparks<br> +Of love, that reign'd there, fashion to my view<br> +Our language. And as birds, from river banks<br> +Arisen, now in round, now lengthen'd troop,<br> +Array them in their flight, greeting, as seems,<br> +Their new-found pastures; so, within the lights,<br> +The saintly creatures flying, sang, and made<br> +Now D. now I. now L. figur'd I' th' air.<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/18-70.jpg"><img alt="18-70th.jpg (35K)" src="images/18-70th.jpg" height="476" width="437"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +First, singing, to their notes they mov'd, then one<br> +Becoming of these signs, a little while<br> +Did rest them, and were mute. O nymph divine<br> +Of Pegasean race! whose souls, which thou<br> +Inspir'st, mak'st glorious and long-liv'd, as they<br> +Cities and realms by thee! thou with thyself<br> +Inform me; that I may set forth the shapes,<br> +As fancy doth present them. Be thy power<br> +Display'd in this brief song. The characters,<br> +Vocal and consonant, were five-fold seven.<br> +In order each, as they appear'd, I mark'd.<br> +Diligite Justitiam, the first,<br> +Both verb and noun all blazon'd; and the extreme<br> +Qui judicatis terram. In the M.<br> +Of the fifth word they held their station,<br> +Making the star seem silver streak'd with gold.<br> +And on the summit of the M. I saw<br> +Descending other lights, that rested there,<br> +Singing, methinks, their bliss and primal good.<br> +Then, as at shaking of a lighted brand,<br> +Sparkles innumerable on all sides<br> +Rise scatter'd, source of augury to th' unwise;<br> +Thus more than thousand twinkling lustres hence<br> +Seem'd reascending, and a higher pitch<br> +Some mounting, and some less; e'en as the sun,<br> +Which kindleth them, decreed. And when each one<br> +Had settled in his place, the head and neck<br> +Then saw I of an eagle, lively<br> +Grav'd in that streaky fire. Who painteth there,<br> +Hath none to guide him; of himself he guides;<br> +And every line and texture of the nest<br> +Doth own from him the virtue, fashions it.<br> +The other bright beatitude, that seem'd<br> +Erewhile, with lilied crowning, well content<br> +To over-canopy the M. mov'd forth,<br> +Following gently the impress of the bird.<br> +<br> Sweet star! what glorious and thick-studded gems<br> +Declar'd to me our justice on the earth<br> +To be the effluence of that heav'n, which thou,<br> +Thyself a costly jewel, dost inlay!<br> +Therefore I pray the Sovran Mind, from whom<br> +Thy motion and thy virtue are begun,<br> +That he would look from whence the fog doth rise,<br> +To vitiate thy beam: so that once more<br> +He may put forth his hand 'gainst such, as drive<br> +Their traffic in that sanctuary, whose walls<br> +With miracles and martyrdoms were built.<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/18-120.jpg"><img alt="18-120th.jpg (29K)" src="images/18-120th.jpg" height="475" width="435"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br> Ye host of heaven! whose glory I survey l<br> +O beg ye grace for those, that are on earth<br> +All after ill example gone astray.<br> +War once had for its instrument the sword:<br> +But now 't is made, taking the bread away<br> +Which the good Father locks from none. —And thou,<br> +That writes but to cancel, think, that they,<br> +Who for the vineyard, which thou wastest, died,<br> +Peter and Paul live yet, and mark thy doings.<br> +Thou hast good cause to cry, "My heart so cleaves<br> +To him, that liv'd in solitude remote,<br> +And from the wilds was dragg'd to martyrdom,<br> +I wist not of the fisherman nor Paul."</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="19"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO XIX</h2> +<br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/19-1.jpg"><img alt="19-1th.jpg (29K)" src="images/19-1th.jpg" height="476" width="433"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>Before my sight appear'd, with open wings,<br> +The beauteous image, in fruition sweet<br> +Gladdening the thronged spirits. Each did seem<br> +A little ruby, whereon so intense<br> +The sun-beam glow'd that to mine eyes it came<br> +In clear refraction. And that, which next<br> +Befalls me to portray, voice hath not utter'd,<br> +Nor hath ink written, nor in fantasy<br> +Was e'er conceiv'd. For I beheld and heard<br> +The beak discourse; and, what intention form'd<br> +Of many, singly as of one express,<br> +Beginning: "For that I was just and piteous,<br> +l am exalted to this height of glory,<br> +The which no wish exceeds: and there on earth<br> +Have I my memory left, e'en by the bad<br> +Commended, while they leave its course untrod."<br> +<br> Thus is one heat from many embers felt,<br> +As in that image many were the loves,<br> +And one the voice, that issued from them all.<br> +Whence I address them: "O perennial flowers<br> +Of gladness everlasting! that exhale<br> +In single breath your odours manifold!<br> +Breathe now; and let the hunger be appeas'd,<br> +That with great craving long hath held my soul,<br> +Finding no food on earth. This well I know,<br> +That if there be in heav'n a realm, that shows<br> +In faithful mirror the celestial Justice,<br> +Yours without veil reflects it. Ye discern<br> +The heed, wherewith I do prepare myself<br> +To hearken; ye the doubt that urges me<br> +With such inveterate craving." Straight I saw,<br> +Like to a falcon issuing from the hood,<br> +That rears his head, and claps him with his wings,<br> +His beauty and his eagerness bewraying.<br> +So saw I move that stately sign, with praise<br> +Of grace divine inwoven and high song<br> +Of inexpressive joy. "He," it began,<br> +"Who turn'd his compass on the world's extreme,<br> +And in that space so variously hath wrought,<br> +Both openly, and in secret, in such wise<br> +Could not through all the universe display<br> +Impression of his glory, that the Word<br> +Of his omniscience should not still remain<br> +In infinite excess. In proof whereof,<br> +He first through pride supplanted, who was sum<br> +Of each created being, waited not<br> +For light celestial, and abortive fell.<br> +Whence needs each lesser nature is but scant<br> +Receptacle unto that Good, which knows<br> +No limit, measur'd by itself alone.<br> +Therefore your sight, of th' omnipresent Mind<br> +A single beam, its origin must own<br> +Surpassing far its utmost potency.<br> +The ken, your world is gifted with, descends<br> +In th' everlasting Justice as low down,<br> +As eye doth in the sea; which though it mark<br> +The bottom from the shore, in the wide main<br> +Discerns it not; and ne'ertheless it is,<br> +But hidden through its deepness. Light is none,<br> +Save that which cometh from the pure serene<br> +Of ne'er disturbed ether: for the rest,<br> +'Tis darkness all, or shadow of the flesh,<br> +Or else its poison. Here confess reveal'd<br> +That covert, which hath hidden from thy search<br> +The living justice, of the which thou mad'st<br> +Such frequent question; for thou saidst—'A man<br> +Is born on Indus' banks, and none is there<br> +Who speaks of Christ, nor who doth read nor write,<br> +And all his inclinations and his acts,<br> +As far as human reason sees, are good,<br> +And he offendeth not in word or deed.<br> +But unbaptiz'd he dies, and void of faith.<br> +Where is the justice that condemns him? where<br> +His blame, if he believeth not?'—What then,<br> +And who art thou, that on the stool wouldst sit<br> +To judge at distance of a thousand miles<br> +With the short-sighted vision of a span?<br> +To him, who subtilizes thus with me,<br> +There would assuredly be room for doubt<br> +Even to wonder, did not the safe word<br> +Of scripture hold supreme authority.<br> +<br> "O animals of clay! O spirits gross I<br> +The primal will, that in itself is good,<br> +Hath from itself, the chief Good, ne'er been mov'd.<br> +Justice consists in consonance with it,<br> +Derivable by no created good,<br> +Whose very cause depends upon its beam."<br> +<br> As on her nest the stork, that turns about<br> +Unto her young, whom lately she hath fed,<br> +While they with upward eyes do look on her;<br> +So lifted I my gaze; and bending so<br> +The ever-blessed image wav'd its wings,<br> +Lab'ring with such deep counsel. Wheeling round<br> +It warbled, and did say: "As are my notes<br> +To thee, who understand'st them not, such is<br> +Th' eternal judgment unto mortal ken."<br> +<br> Then still abiding in that ensign rang'd,<br> +Wherewith the Romans over-awed the world,<br> +Those burning splendours of the Holy Spirit<br> +Took up the strain; and thus it spake again:<br> +"None ever hath ascended to this realm,<br> +Who hath not a believer been in Christ,<br> +Either before or after the blest limbs<br> +Were nail'd upon the wood. But lo! of those<br> +Who call 'Christ, Christ,' there shall be many found,<br> + In judgment, further off from him by far,<br> +Than such, to whom his name was never known.<br> +Christians like these the Ethiop shall condemn:<br> +When that the two assemblages shall part;<br> +One rich eternally, the other poor.<br> +<br> "What may the Persians say unto your kings,<br> +When they shall see that volume, in the which<br> +All their dispraise is written, spread to view?<br> +There amidst Albert's works shall that be read,<br> +Which will give speedy motion to the pen,<br> +When Prague shall mourn her desolated realm.<br> +There shall be read the woe, that he doth work<br> +With his adulterate money on the Seine,<br> +Who by the tusk will perish: there be read<br> +The thirsting pride, that maketh fool alike<br> +The English and Scot, impatient of their bound.<br> +There shall be seen the Spaniard's luxury,<br> +The delicate living there of the Bohemian,<br> +Who still to worth has been a willing stranger.<br> +The halter of Jerusalem shall see<br> +A unit for his virtue, for his vices<br> +No less a mark than million. He, who guards<br> +The isle of fire by old Anchises honour'd<br> +Shall find his avarice there and cowardice;<br> +And better to denote his littleness,<br> +The writing must be letters maim'd, that speak<br> +Much in a narrow space. All there shall know<br> +His uncle and his brother's filthy doings,<br> +Who so renown'd a nation and two crowns<br> +Have bastardized. And they, of Portugal<br> +And Norway, there shall be expos'd with him<br> +Of Ratza, who hath counterfeited ill<br> +The coin of Venice. O blest Hungary!<br> +If thou no longer patiently abid'st<br> +Thy ill-entreating! and, O blest Navarre!<br> +If with thy mountainous girdle thou wouldst arm thee<br> +In earnest of that day, e'en now are heard<br> +Wailings and groans in Famagosta's streets<br> +And Nicosia's, grudging at their beast,<br> +Who keepeth even footing with the rest."</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="20"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO XX</h2> +<br> + +<p>When, disappearing, from our hemisphere,<br> +The world's enlightener vanishes, and day<br> +On all sides wasteth, suddenly the sky,<br> +Erewhile irradiate only with his beam,<br> +Is yet again unfolded, putting forth<br> +Innumerable lights wherein one shines.<br> +Of such vicissitude in heaven I thought,<br> +As the great sign, that marshaleth the world<br> +And the world's leaders, in the blessed beak<br> +Was silent; for that all those living lights,<br> +Waxing in splendour, burst forth into songs,<br> +Such as from memory glide and fall away.<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/20-10.jpg"><img alt="20-10th.jpg (34K)" src="images/20-10th.jpg" height="477" width="406"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br> Sweet love! that dost apparel thee in smiles,<br> +How lustrous was thy semblance in those sparkles,<br> +Which merely are from holy thoughts inspir'd!<br> +<br> After the precious and bright beaming stones,<br> +That did ingem the sixth light, ceas'd the chiming<br> +Of their angelic bells; methought I heard<br> +The murmuring of a river, that doth fall<br> +From rock to rock transpicuous, making known<br> +The richness of his spring-head: and as sound<br> +Of cistern, at the fret-board, or of pipe,<br> +Is, at the wind-hole, modulate and tun'd;<br> +Thus up the neck, as it were hollow, rose<br> +That murmuring of the eagle, and forthwith<br> +Voice there assum'd, and thence along the beak<br> +Issued in form of words, such as my heart<br> +Did look for, on whose tables I inscrib'd them.<br> +<br> "The part in me, that sees, and bears the sun,,<br> +In mortal eagles," it began, "must now<br> +Be noted steadfastly: for of the fires,<br> +That figure me, those, glittering in mine eye,<br> +Are chief of all the greatest. This, that shines<br> +Midmost for pupil, was the same, who sang<br> +The Holy Spirit's song, and bare about<br> +The ark from town to town; now doth he know<br> +The merit of his soul-impassion'd strains<br> +By their well-fitted guerdon. Of the five,<br> +That make the circle of the vision, he<br> +Who to the beak is nearest, comforted<br> +The widow for her son: now doth he know<br> +How dear he costeth not to follow Christ,<br> +Both from experience of this pleasant life,<br> +And of its opposite. He next, who follows<br> +In the circumference, for the over arch,<br> +By true repenting slack'd the pace of death:<br> +Now knoweth he, that the degrees of heav'n<br> +Alter not, when through pious prayer below<br> +Today's is made tomorrow's destiny.<br> +The other following, with the laws and me,<br> +To yield the shepherd room, pass'd o'er to Greece,<br> +From good intent producing evil fruit:<br> +Now knoweth he, how all the ill, deriv'd<br> +From his well doing, doth not helm him aught,<br> +Though it have brought destruction on the world.<br> +That, which thou seest in the under bow,<br> +Was William, whom that land bewails, which weeps<br> +For Charles and Frederick living: now he knows<br> +How well is lov'd in heav'n the righteous king,<br> +Which he betokens by his radiant seeming.<br> +Who in the erring world beneath would deem,<br> +That Trojan Ripheus in this round was set<br> +Fifth of the saintly splendours? now he knows<br> +Enough of that, which the world cannot see,<br> +The grace divine, albeit e'en his sight<br> +Reach not its utmost depth." Like to the lark,<br> +That warbling in the air expatiates long,<br> +Then, trilling out his last sweet melody,<br> +Drops satiate with the sweetness; such appear'd<br> +That image stampt by the' everlasting pleasure,<br> +Which fashions like itself all lovely things.<br> +<br> I, though my doubting were as manifest,<br> +As is through glass the hue that mantles it,<br> +In silence waited not: for to my lips<br> +"What things are these?" involuntary rush'd,<br> +And forc'd a passage out: whereat I mark'd<br> +A sudden lightening and new revelry.<br> +The eye was kindled: and the blessed sign<br> +No more to keep me wond'ring and suspense,<br> +Replied: "I see that thou believ'st these things,<br> +Because I tell them, but discern'st not how;<br> +So that thy knowledge waits not on thy faith:<br> +As one who knows the name of thing by rote,<br> +But is a stranger to its properties,<br> +Till other's tongue reveal them. Fervent love<br> +And lively hope with violence assail<br> +The kingdom of the heavens, and overcome<br> +The will of the Most high; not in such sort<br> +As man prevails o'er man; but conquers it,<br> +Because 't is willing to be conquer'd, still,<br> +Though conquer'd, by its mercy conquering.<br> +<br> "Those, in the eye who live the first and fifth,<br> +Cause thee to marvel, in that thou behold'st<br> +The region of the angels deck'd with them.<br> +They quitted not their bodies, as thou deem'st,<br> +Gentiles but Christians, in firm rooted faith,<br> +This of the feet in future to be pierc'd,<br> +That of feet nail'd already to the cross.<br> +One from the barrier of the dark abyss,<br> +Where never any with good will returns,<br> +Came back unto his bones. Of lively hope<br> +Such was the meed; of lively hope, that wing'd<br> +The prayers sent up to God for his release,<br> +And put power into them to bend his will.<br> +The glorious Spirit, of whom I speak to thee,<br> +A little while returning to the flesh,<br> +Believ'd in him, who had the means to help,<br> +And, in believing, nourish'd such a flame<br> +Of holy love, that at the second death<br> +He was made sharer in our gamesome mirth.<br> +The other, through the riches of that grace,<br> +Which from so deep a fountain doth distil,<br> +As never eye created saw its rising,<br> +Plac'd all his love below on just and right:<br> +Wherefore of grace God op'd in him the eye<br> +To the redemption of mankind to come;<br> +Wherein believing, he endur'd no more<br> +The filth of paganism, and for their ways<br> +Rebuk'd the stubborn nations. The three nymphs,<br> +Whom at the right wheel thou beheldst advancing,<br> +Were sponsors for him more than thousand years<br> +Before baptizing. O how far remov'd,<br> +Predestination! is thy root from such<br> +As see not the First cause entire: and ye,<br> +O mortal men! be wary how ye judge:<br> +For we, who see our Maker, know not yet<br> +The number of the chosen: and esteem<br> +Such scantiness of knowledge our delight:<br> +For all our good is in that primal good<br> +Concentrate, and God's will and ours are one."<br> +<br> So, by that form divine, was giv'n to me<br> +Sweet medicine to clear and strengthen sight,<br> +And, as one handling skillfully the harp,<br> +Attendant on some skilful songster's voice<br> +Bids the chords vibrate, and therein the song<br> +Acquires more pleasure; so, the whilst it spake,<br> +It doth remember me, that I beheld<br> +The pair of blessed luminaries move.<br> +Like the accordant twinkling of two eyes,<br> +Their beamy circlets, dancing to the sounds.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="21"></a> +<br><br> +<h2>CANTO XXI</h2> +<br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/21-1.jpg"><img alt="21-1th.jpg (31K)" src="images/21-1th.jpg" height="476" width="426"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>Again mine eyes were fix'd on Beatrice,<br> +And with mine eyes my soul, that in her looks<br> +Found all contentment. Yet no smile she wore<br> +And, "Did I smile," quoth she, "thou wouldst be straight<br> +Like Semele when into ashes turn'd:<br> +For, mounting these eternal palace-stairs,<br> +My beauty, which the loftier it climbs,<br> +As thou hast noted, still doth kindle more,<br> +So shines, that, were no temp'ring interpos'd,<br> +Thy mortal puissance would from its rays<br> +Shrink, as the leaf doth from the thunderbolt.<br> +Into the seventh splendour are we wafted,<br> +That underneath the burning lion's breast<br> +Beams, in this hour, commingled with his might,<br> +Thy mind be with thine eyes: and in them mirror'd<br> +The shape, which in this mirror shall be shown."<br> +Whoso can deem, how fondly I had fed<br> +My sight upon her blissful countenance,<br> +May know, when to new thoughts I chang'd, what joy<br> +To do the bidding of my heav'nly guide:<br> +In equal balance poising either weight.<br> +<br> Within the crystal, which records the name,<br> +(As its remoter circle girds the world)<br> +Of that lov'd monarch, in whose happy reign<br> +No ill had power to harm, I saw rear'd up,<br> +In colour like to sun-illumin'd gold.<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<a href="images/21-28.jpg"><img alt="21-28th.jpg (35K)" src="images/21-28th.jpg" height="467" width="412"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +A ladder, which my ken pursued in vain,<br> +So lofty was the summit; down whose steps<br> +I saw the splendours in such multitude<br> +Descending, ev'ry light in heav'n, methought,<br> +Was shed thence. As the rooks, at dawn of day<br> +Bestirring them to dry their feathers chill,<br> +Some speed their way a-field, and homeward some,<br> +Returning, cross their flight, while some abide<br> +And wheel around their airy lodge; so seem'd<br> +That glitterance, wafted on alternate wing,<br> +As upon certain stair it met, and clash'd<br> +Its shining. And one ling'ring near us, wax'd<br> +So bright, that in my thought: said: "The love,<br> +Which this betokens me, admits no doubt."<br> +<br> Unwillingly from question I refrain,<br> +To her, by whom my silence and my speech<br> +Are order'd, looking for a sign: whence she,<br> +Who in the sight of Him, that seeth all,<br> +Saw wherefore I was silent, prompted me<br> +T' indulge the fervent wish; and I began:<br> +"I am not worthy, of my own desert,<br> +That thou shouldst answer me; but for her sake,<br> +Who hath vouchsaf'd my asking, spirit blest!<br> +That in thy joy art shrouded! say the cause,<br> +Which bringeth thee so near: and wherefore, say,<br> +Doth the sweet symphony of Paradise<br> +Keep silence here, pervading with such sounds<br> +Of rapt devotion ev'ry lower sphere?"<br> +"Mortal art thou in hearing as in sight;"<br> +Was the reply: "and what forbade the smile<br> +Of Beatrice interrupts our song.<br> +Only to yield thee gladness of my voice,<br> +And of the light that vests me, I thus far<br> +Descend these hallow'd steps: not that more love<br> +Invites me; for lo! there aloft, as much<br> +Or more of love is witness'd in those flames:<br> +But such my lot by charity assign'd,<br> +That makes us ready servants, as thou seest,<br> +To execute the counsel of the Highest.<br> +"That in this court," said I, "O sacred lamp!<br> +Love no compulsion needs, but follows free<br> +Th' eternal Providence, I well discern:<br> +This harder find to deem, why of thy peers<br> +Thou only to this office wert foredoom'd."<br> +I had not ended, when, like rapid mill,<br> +Upon its centre whirl'd the light; and then<br> +The love, that did inhabit there, replied:<br> +"Splendour eternal, piercing through these folds,<br> +Its virtue to my vision knits, and thus<br> +Supported, lifts me so above myself,<br> +That on the sov'ran essence, which it wells from,<br> +I have the power to gaze: and hence the joy,<br> +Wherewith I sparkle, equaling with my blaze<br> +The keenness of my sight. But not the soul,<br> +That is in heav'n most lustrous, nor the seraph<br> +That hath his eyes most fix'd on God, shall solve<br> +What thou hast ask'd: for in th' abyss it lies<br> +Of th' everlasting statute sunk so low,<br> +That no created ken may fathom it.<br> +And, to the mortal world when thou return'st,<br> +Be this reported; that none henceforth dare<br> +Direct his footsteps to so dread a bourn.<br> +The mind, that here is radiant, on the earth<br> +Is wrapt in mist. Look then if she may do,<br> +Below, what passeth her ability,<br> +When she is ta'en to heav'n." By words like these<br> +Admonish'd, I the question urg'd no more;<br> +And of the spirit humbly sued alone<br> +T' instruct me of its state. "'Twixt either shore<br> +Of Italy, nor distant from thy land,<br> +A stony ridge ariseth, in such sort,<br> +The thunder doth not lift his voice so high,<br> +They call it Catria: at whose foot a cell<br> +Is sacred to the lonely Eremite,<br> +For worship set apart and holy rites."<br> +A third time thus it spake; then added: "There<br> +So firmly to God's service I adher'd,<br> +That with no costlier viands than the juice<br> +Of olives, easily I pass'd the heats<br> +Of summer and the winter frosts, content<br> +In heav'n-ward musings. Rich were the returns<br> +And fertile, which that cloister once was us'd<br> +To render to these heavens: now 't is fall'n<br> +Into a waste so empty, that ere long<br> +Detection must lay bare its vanity<br> +Pietro Damiano there was I yclept:<br> +Pietro the sinner, when before I dwelt<br> +Beside the Adriatic, in the house<br> +Of our blest Lady. Near upon my close<br> +Of mortal life, through much importuning<br> +I was constrain'd to wear the hat that still<br> +From bad to worse it shifted.—Cephas came;<br> +He came, who was the Holy Spirit's vessel,<br> +Barefoot and lean, eating their bread, as chanc'd,<br> +At the first table. Modern Shepherd's need<br> +Those who on either hand may prop and lead them,<br> +So burly are they grown: and from behind<br> +Others to hoist them. Down the palfrey's sides<br> +Spread their broad mantles, so as both the beasts<br> +Are cover'd with one skin. O patience! thou<br> +That lookst on this and doth endure so long."<br> +I at those accents saw the splendours down<br> +From step to step alight, and wheel, and wax,<br> +Each circuiting, more beautiful. Round this<br> +They came, and stay'd them; uttered them a shout<br> +So loud, it hath no likeness here: nor I<br> +Wist what it spake, so deaf'ning was the thunder."</p> + + + + + + + + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + + + +<br> +<br> +<hr> +<br><br> + + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Vision of Paradise, Part 2., by Dante Alighieri + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VISION OF PARADISE, PART 2. *** + +***** This file should be named 8797-h.htm or 8797-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/8/7/9/8797/ + +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 Paradise, Part 2. + Translated By The Rev. H. F. Cary, Illustrated by Gustave Dore + +Author: Dante Alighieri + +Release Date: August 2, 2004 [EBook #8797] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VISION OF PARADISE, PART 2. *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +THE VISION + +OF + +HELL, PURGATORY, AND PARADISE + + +BY DANTE ALIGHIERI + + + +TRANSLATED BY + +THE REV. H. F. CARY, M.A. + + + +PARADISE + +Part 2 + + + +CANTO XV + +True love, that ever shows itself as clear +In kindness, as loose appetite in wrong, +Silenced that lyre harmonious, and still'd +The sacred chords, that are by heav'n's right hand +Unwound and tighten'd, flow to righteous prayers +Should they not hearken, who, to give me will +For praying, in accordance thus were mute? +He hath in sooth good cause for endless grief, +Who, for the love of thing that lasteth not, +Despoils himself forever of that love. + +As oft along the still and pure serene, +At nightfall, glides a sudden trail of fire, +Attracting with involuntary heed +The eye to follow it, erewhile at rest, +And seems some star that shifted place in heav'n, +Only that, whence it kindles, none is lost, +And it is soon extinct; thus from the horn, +That on the dexter of the cross extends, +Down to its foot, one luminary ran +From mid the cluster shone there; yet no gem +Dropp'd from its foil; and through the beamy list +Like flame in alabaster, glow'd its course. + +So forward stretch'd him (if of credence aught +Our greater muse may claim) the pious ghost +Of old Anchises, in the' Elysian bower, +When he perceiv'd his son. "O thou, my blood! +O most exceeding grace divine! to whom, +As now to thee, hath twice the heav'nly gate +Been e'er unclos'd?" so spake the light; whence I +Turn'd me toward him; then unto my dame +My sight directed, and on either side +Amazement waited me; for in her eyes +Was lighted such a smile, I thought that mine +Had div'd unto the bottom of my grace +And of my bliss in Paradise. Forthwith +To hearing and to sight grateful alike, +The spirit to his proem added things +I understood not, so profound he spake; +Yet not of choice but through necessity +Mysterious; for his high conception scar'd +Beyond the mark of mortals. When the flight +Of holy transport had so spent its rage, +That nearer to the level of our thought +The speech descended, the first sounds I heard +Were, "Best he thou, Triunal Deity! +That hast such favour in my seed vouchsaf'd!" +Then follow'd: "No unpleasant thirst, tho' long, +Which took me reading in the sacred book, +Whose leaves or white or dusky never change, +Thou hast allay'd, my son, within this light, +From whence my voice thou hear'st; more thanks to her. +Who for such lofty mounting has with plumes +Begirt thee. Thou dost deem thy thoughts to me +From him transmitted, who is first of all, +E'en as all numbers ray from unity; +And therefore dost not ask me who I am, +Or why to thee more joyous I appear, +Than any other in this gladsome throng. +The truth is as thou deem'st; for in this hue +Both less and greater in that mirror look, +In which thy thoughts, or ere thou think'st, are shown. +But, that the love, which keeps me wakeful ever, +Urging with sacred thirst of sweet desire, +May be contended fully, let thy voice, +Fearless, and frank and jocund, utter forth +Thy will distinctly, utter forth the wish, +Whereto my ready answer stands decreed." + +I turn'd me to Beatrice; and she heard +Ere I had spoken, smiling, an assent, +That to my will gave wings; and I began +"To each among your tribe, what time ye kenn'd +The nature, in whom naught unequal dwells, +Wisdom and love were in one measure dealt; +For that they are so equal in the sun, +From whence ye drew your radiance and your heat, +As makes all likeness scant. But will and means, +In mortals, for the cause ye well discern, +With unlike wings are fledge. A mortal I +Experience inequality like this, +And therefore give no thanks, but in the heart, +For thy paternal greeting. This howe'er +I pray thee, living topaz! that ingemm'st +This precious jewel, let me hear thy name." + +"I am thy root, O leaf! whom to expect +Even, hath pleas'd me:" thus the prompt reply +Prefacing, next it added; "he, of whom +Thy kindred appellation comes, and who, +These hundred years and more, on its first ledge +Hath circuited the mountain, was my son +And thy great grandsire. Well befits, his long +Endurance should be shorten'd by thy deeds. + +"Florence, within her ancient limit-mark, +Which calls her still to matin prayers and noon, +Was chaste and sober, and abode in peace. +She had no armlets and no head-tires then, +No purfled dames, no zone, that caught the eye +More than the person did. Time was not yet, +When at his daughter's birth the sire grew pale. +For fear the age and dowry should exceed +On each side just proportion. House was none +Void of its family; nor yet had come +Hardanapalus, to exhibit feats +Of chamber prowess. Montemalo yet +O'er our suburban turret rose; as much +To be surpass in fall, as in its rising. +I saw Bellincione Berti walk abroad +In leathern girdle and a clasp of bone; +And, with no artful colouring on her cheeks, +His lady leave the glass. The sons I saw +Of Nerli and of Vecchio well content +With unrob'd jerkin; and their good dames handling +The spindle and the flax; O happy they! +Each sure of burial in her native land, +And none left desolate a-bed for France! +One wak'd to tend the cradle, hushing it +With sounds that lull'd the parent's infancy: +Another, with her maidens, drawing off +The tresses from the distaff, lectur'd them +Old tales of Troy and Fesole and Rome. +A Salterello and Cianghella we +Had held as strange a marvel, as ye would +A Cincinnatus or Cornelia now. + +"In such compos'd and seemly fellowship, +Such faithful and such fair equality, +In so sweet household, Mary at my birth +Bestow'd me, call'd on with loud cries; and there +In your old baptistery, I was made +Christian at once and Cacciaguida; as were +My brethren, Eliseo and Moronto. + +"From Valdipado came to me my spouse, +And hence thy surname grew. I follow'd then +The Emperor Conrad; and his knighthood he +Did gird on me; in such good part he took +My valiant service. After him I went +To testify against that evil law, +Whose people, by the shepherd's fault, possess +Your right, usurping. There, by that foul crew +Was I releas'd from the deceitful world, +Whose base affection many a spirit soils, +And from the martyrdom came to this peace." + + + + +CANTO XVI + +O slight respect of man's nobility! +I never shall account it marvelous, +That our infirm affection here below +Thou mov'st to boasting, when I could not choose, +E'en in that region of unwarp'd desire, +In heav'n itself, but make my vaunt in thee! +Yet cloak thou art soon shorten'd, for that time, +Unless thou be eked out from day to day, +Goes round thee with his shears. Resuming then +With greeting such, as Rome, was first to bear, +But since hath disaccustom'd I began; +And Beatrice, that a little space +Was sever'd, smil'd reminding me of her, +Whose cough embolden'd (as the story holds) +To first offence the doubting Guenever. + +"You are my sire," said I, "you give me heart +Freely to speak my thought: above myself +You raise me. Through so many streams with joy +My soul is fill'd, that gladness wells from it; +So that it bears the mighty tide, and bursts not +Say then, my honour'd stem! what ancestors +Where those you sprang from, and what years were mark'd +In your first childhood? Tell me of the fold, +That hath Saint John for guardian, what was then +Its state, and who in it were highest seated?" + +As embers, at the breathing of the wind, +Their flame enliven, so that light I saw +Shine at my blandishments; and, as it grew +More fair to look on, so with voice more sweet, +Yet not in this our modern phrase, forthwith +It answer'd: "From the day, when it was said +'Hail Virgin!' to the throes, by which my mother, +Who now is sainted, lighten'd her of me +Whom she was heavy with, this fire had come, +Five hundred fifty times and thrice, its beams +To reilumine underneath the foot +Of its own lion. They, of whom I sprang, +And I, had there our birth-place, where the last +Partition of our city first is reach'd +By him, that runs her annual game. Thus much +Suffice of my forefathers: who they were, +And whence they hither came, more honourable +It is to pass in silence than to tell. +All those, who in that time were there from Mars +Until the Baptist, fit to carry arms, +Were but the fifth of them this day alive. +But then the citizen's blood, that now is mix'd +From Campi and Certaldo and Fighine, +Ran purely through the last mechanic's veins. +O how much better were it, that these people +Were neighbours to you, and that at Galluzzo +And at Trespiano, ye should have your bound'ry, +Than to have them within, and bear the stench +Of Aguglione's hind, and Signa's, him, +That hath his eye already keen for bart'ring! +Had not the people, which of all the world +Degenerates most, been stepdame unto Caesar, +But, as a mother, gracious to her son; +Such one, as hath become a Florentine, +And trades and traffics, had been turn'd adrift +To Simifonte, where his grandsire ply'd +The beggar's craft. The Conti were possess'd +Of Montemurlo still: the Cerchi still +Were in Acone's parish; nor had haply +From Valdigrieve past the Buondelmonte. +The city's malady hath ever source +In the confusion of its persons, as +The body's, in variety of food: +And the blind bull falls with a steeper plunge, +Than the blind lamb; and oftentimes one sword +Doth more and better execution, +Than five. Mark Luni, Urbisaglia mark, +How they are gone, and after them how go +Chiusi and Sinigaglia; and 't will seem +No longer new or strange to thee to hear, +That families fail, when cities have their end. +All things, that appertain t' ye, like yourselves, +Are mortal: but mortality in some +Ye mark not, they endure so long, and you +Pass by so suddenly. And as the moon +Doth, by the rolling of her heav'nly sphere, +Hide and reveal the strand unceasingly; +So fortune deals with Florence. Hence admire not +At what of them I tell thee, whose renown +Time covers, the first Florentines. I saw +The Ughi, Catilini and Filippi, +The Alberichi, Greci and Ormanni, +Now in their wane, illustrious citizens: +And great as ancient, of Sannella him, +With him of Arca saw, and Soldanieri +And Ardinghi, and Bostichi. At the poop, +That now is laden with new felony, +So cumb'rous it may speedily sink the bark, +The Ravignani sat, of whom is sprung +The County Guido, and whoso hath since +His title from the fam'd Bellincione ta'en. +Fair governance was yet an art well priz'd +By him of Pressa: Galigaio show'd +The gilded hilt and pommel, in his house. +The column, cloth'd with verrey, still was seen +Unshaken: the Sacchetti still were great, +Giouchi, Sifanti, Galli and Barucci, +With them who blush to hear the bushel nam'd. +Of the Calfucci still the branchy trunk +Was in its strength: and to the curule chairs +Sizii and Arigucci yet were drawn. +How mighty them I saw, whom since their pride +Hath undone! and in all her goodly deeds +Florence was by the bullets of bright gold +O'erflourish'd. Such the sires of those, who now, +As surely as your church is vacant, flock +Into her consistory, and at leisure +There stall them and grow fat. The o'erweening brood, +That plays the dragon after him that flees, +But unto such, as turn and show the tooth, +Ay or the purse, is gentle as a lamb, +Was on its rise, but yet so slight esteem'd, +That Ubertino of Donati grudg'd +His father-in-law should yoke him to its tribe. +Already Caponsacco had descended +Into the mart from Fesole: and Giuda +And Infangato were good citizens. +A thing incredible I tell, tho' true: +The gateway, named from those of Pera, led +Into the narrow circuit of your walls. +Each one, who bears the sightly quarterings +Of the great Baron (he whose name and worth +The festival of Thomas still revives) +His knighthood and his privilege retain'd; +Albeit one, who borders them With gold, +This day is mingled with the common herd. +In Borgo yet the Gualterotti dwelt, +And Importuni: well for its repose +Had it still lack'd of newer neighbourhood. +The house, from whence your tears have had their spring, +Through the just anger that hath murder'd ye +And put a period to your gladsome days, +Was honour'd, it, and those consorted with it. +O Buondelmonte! what ill counseling +Prevail'd on thee to break the plighted bond +Many, who now are weeping, would rejoice, +Had God to Ema giv'n thee, the first time +Thou near our city cam'st. But so was doom'd: +On that maim'd stone set up to guard the bridge, +At thy last peace, the victim, Florence! fell. +With these and others like to them, I saw +Florence in such assur'd tranquility, +She had no cause at which to grieve: with these +Saw her so glorious and so just, that ne'er +The lily from the lance had hung reverse, +Or through division been with vermeil dyed." + + + + +CANTO XVII + +Such as the youth, who came to Clymene +To certify himself of that reproach, +Which had been fasten'd on him, (he whose end +Still makes the fathers chary to their sons), +E'en such was I; nor unobserv'd was such +Of Beatrice, and that saintly lamp, +Who had erewhile for me his station mov'd; +When thus by lady: "Give thy wish free vent, +That it may issue, bearing true report +Of the mind's impress; not that aught thy words +May to our knowledge add, but to the end, +That thou mayst use thyself to own thy thirst +And men may mingle for thee when they hear." + +"O plant! from whence I spring! rever'd and lov'd! +Who soar'st so high a pitch, thou seest as clear, +As earthly thought determines two obtuse +In one triangle not contain'd, so clear +Dost see contingencies, ere in themselves +Existent, looking at the point whereto +All times are present, I, the whilst I scal'd +With Virgil the soul purifying mount, +And visited the nether world of woe, +Touching my future destiny have heard +Words grievous, though I feel me on all sides +Well squar'd to fortune's blows. Therefore my will +Were satisfied to know the lot awaits me, +The arrow, seen beforehand, slacks its flight." + +So said I to the brightness, which erewhile +To me had spoken, and my will declar'd, +As Beatrice will'd, explicitly. +Nor with oracular response obscure, +Such, as or ere the Lamb of God was slain, +Beguil'd the credulous nations; but, in terms +Precise and unambiguous lore, replied +The spirit of paternal love, enshrin'd, +Yet in his smile apparent; and thus spake: +"Contingency, unfolded not to view +Upon the tablet of your mortal mold, +Is all depictur'd in the' eternal sight; +But hence deriveth not necessity, +More then the tall ship, hurried down the flood, +Doth from the vision, that reflects the scene. +From thence, as to the ear sweet harmony +From organ comes, so comes before mine eye +The time prepar'd for thee. Such as driv'n out +From Athens, by his cruel stepdame's wiles, +Hippolytus departed, such must thou +Depart from Florence. This they wish, and this +Contrive, and will ere long effectuate, there, +Where gainful merchandize is made of Christ, +Throughout the livelong day. The common cry, +Will, as 't is ever wont, affix the blame +Unto the party injur'd: but the truth +Shall, in the vengeance it dispenseth, find +A faithful witness. Thou shall leave each thing +Belov'd most dearly: this is the first shaft +Shot from the bow of exile. Thou shalt prove +How salt the savour is of other's bread, +How hard the passage to descend and climb +By other's stairs, But that shall gall thee most +Will be the worthless and vile company, +With whom thou must be thrown into these straits. +For all ungrateful, impious all and mad, +Shall turn 'gainst thee: but in a little while +Theirs and not thine shall be the crimson'd brow +Their course shall so evince their brutishness +T' have ta'en thy stand apart shall well become thee. + +"First refuge thou must find, first place of rest, +In the great Lombard's courtesy, who bears +Upon the ladder perch'd the sacred bird. +He shall behold thee with such kind regard, +That 'twixt ye two, the contrary to that +Which falls 'twixt other men, the granting shall +Forerun the asking. With him shalt thou see +That mortal, who was at his birth impress +So strongly from this star, that of his deeds +The nations shall take note. His unripe age +Yet holds him from observance; for these wheels +Only nine years have compass him about. +But, ere the Gascon practice on great Harry, +Sparkles of virtue shall shoot forth in him, +In equal scorn of labours and of gold. +His bounty shall be spread abroad so widely, +As not to let the tongues e'en of his foes +Be idle in its praise. Look thou to him +And his beneficence: for he shall cause +Reversal of their lot to many people, +Rich men and beggars interchanging fortunes. +And thou shalt bear this written in thy soul +Of him, but tell it not;" and things he told +Incredible to those who witness them; +Then added: "So interpret thou, my son, +What hath been told thee.--Lo! the ambushment +That a few circling seasons hide for thee! +Yet envy not thy neighbours: time extends +Thy span beyond their treason's chastisement." + +Soon, as the saintly spirit, by his silence, +Had shown the web, which I had streteh'd for him +Upon the warp, was woven, I began, +As one, who in perplexity desires +Counsel of other, wise, benign and friendly: +"My father! well I mark how time spurs on +Toward me, ready to inflict the blow, +Which falls most heavily on him, who most +Abandoned himself. Therefore 't is good +I should forecast, that driven from the place +Most dear to me, I may not lose myself +All others by my song. Down through the world +Of infinite mourning, and along the mount +From whose fair height my lady's eyes did lift me, +And after through this heav'n from light to light, +Have I learnt that, which if I tell again, +It may with many woefully disrelish; +And, if I am a timid friend to truth, +I fear my life may perish among those, +To whom these days shall be of ancient date." + +The brightness, where enclos'd the treasure smil'd, +Which I had found there, first shone glisteningly, +Like to a golden mirror in the sun; +Next answer'd: "Conscience, dimm'd or by its own +Or other's shame, will feel thy saying sharp. +Thou, notwithstanding, all deceit remov'd, +See the whole vision be made manifest. +And let them wince who have their withers wrung. +What though, when tasted first, thy voice shall prove +Unwelcome, on digestion it will turn +To vital nourishment. The cry thou raisest, +Shall, as the wind doth, smite the proudest summits; +Which is of honour no light argument, +For this there only have been shown to thee, +Throughout these orbs, the mountain, and the deep, +Spirits, whom fame hath note of. For the mind +Of him, who hears, is loth to acquiesce +And fix its faith, unless the instance brought +Be palpable, and proof apparent urge." + + + + +CANTO XVIII + +CANTO XVIII + +Now in his word, sole, ruminating, joy'd +That blessed spirit; and I fed on mine, +Tempting the sweet with bitter: she meanwhile, +Who led me unto God, admonish'd: "Muse +On other thoughts: bethink thee, that near Him +I dwell, who recompenseth every wrong." + +At the sweet sounds of comfort straight I turn'd; +And, in the saintly eyes what love was seen, +I leave in silence here: nor through distrust +Of my words only, but that to such bliss +The mind remounts not without aid. Thus much +Yet may I speak; that, as I gaz'd on her, +Affection found no room for other wish. +While the everlasting pleasure, that did full +On Beatrice shine, with second view +From her fair countenance my gladden'd soul +Contented; vanquishing me with a beam +Of her soft smile, she spake: "Turn thee, and list. +These eyes are not thy only Paradise." + +As here we sometimes in the looks may see +Th' affection mark'd, when that its sway hath ta'en +The spirit wholly; thus the hallow'd light, +To whom I turn'd, flashing, bewray'd its will +To talk yet further with me, and began: +"On this fifth lodgment of the tree, whose life +Is from its top, whose fruit is ever fair +And leaf unwith'ring, blessed spirits abide, +That were below, ere they arriv'd in heav'n, +So mighty in renown, as every muse +Might grace her triumph with them. On the horns +Look therefore of the cross: he, whom I name, +Shall there enact, as doth in summer cloud +Its nimble fire." Along the cross I saw, +At the repeated name of Joshua, +A splendour gliding; nor, the word was said, +Ere it was done: then, at the naming saw +Of the great Maccabee, another move +With whirling speed; and gladness was the scourge +Unto that top. The next for Charlemagne +And for the peer Orlando, two my gaze +Pursued, intently, as the eye pursues +A falcon flying. Last, along the cross, +William, and Renard, and Duke Godfrey drew +My ken, and Robert Guiscard. And the soul, +Who spake with me among the other lights +Did move away, and mix; and with the choir +Of heav'nly songsters prov'd his tuneful skill. + +To Beatrice on my right l bent, +Looking for intimation or by word +Or act, what next behoov'd; and did descry +Such mere effulgence in her eyes, such joy, +It past all former wont. And, as by sense +Of new delight, the man, who perseveres +In good deeds doth perceive from day to day +His virtue growing; I e'en thus perceiv'd +Of my ascent, together with the heav'n +The circuit widen'd, noting the increase +Of beauty in that wonder. Like the change +In a brief moment on some maiden's cheek, +Which from its fairness doth discharge the weight +Of pudency, that stain'd it; such in her, +And to mine eyes so sudden was the change, +Through silvery whiteness of that temperate star, +Whose sixth orb now enfolded us. I saw, +Within that Jovial cresset, the clear sparks +Of love, that reign'd there, fashion to my view +Our language. And as birds, from river banks +Arisen, now in round, now lengthen'd troop, +Array them in their flight, greeting, as seems, +Their new-found pastures; so, within the lights, +The saintly creatures flying, sang, and made +Now D. now I. now L. figur'd I' th' air. + +First, singing, to their notes they mov'd, then one +Becoming of these signs, a little while +Did rest them, and were mute. O nymph divine +Of Pegasean race! whose souls, which thou +Inspir'st, mak'st glorious and long-liv'd, as they +Cities and realms by thee! thou with thyself +Inform me; that I may set forth the shapes, +As fancy doth present them. Be thy power +Display'd in this brief song. The characters, +Vocal and consonant, were five-fold seven. +In order each, as they appear'd, I mark'd. +Diligite Justitiam, the first, +Both verb and noun all blazon'd; and the extreme +Qui judicatis terram. In the M. +Of the fifth word they held their station, +Making the star seem silver streak'd with gold. +And on the summit of the M. I saw +Descending other lights, that rested there, +Singing, methinks, their bliss and primal good. +Then, as at shaking of a lighted brand, +Sparkles innumerable on all sides +Rise scatter'd, source of augury to th' unwise; +Thus more than thousand twinkling lustres hence +Seem'd reascending, and a higher pitch +Some mounting, and some less; e'en as the sun, +Which kindleth them, decreed. And when each one +Had settled in his place, the head and neck +Then saw I of an eagle, lively +Grav'd in that streaky fire. Who painteth there, +Hath none to guide him; of himself he guides; +And every line and texture of the nest +Doth own from him the virtue, fashions it. +The other bright beatitude, that seem'd +Erewhile, with lilied crowning, well content +To over-canopy the M. mov'd forth, +Following gently the impress of the bird. + + Sweet star! what glorious and thick-studded gems +Declar'd to me our justice on the earth +To be the effluence of that heav'n, which thou, +Thyself a costly jewel, dost inlay! +Therefore I pray the Sovran Mind, from whom +Thy motion and thy virtue are begun, +That he would look from whence the fog doth rise, +To vitiate thy beam: so that once more +He may put forth his hand 'gainst such, as drive +Their traffic in that sanctuary, whose walls +With miracles and martyrdoms were built. + +Ye host of heaven! whose glory I survey! +O beg ye grace for those, that are on earth +All after ill example gone astray. +War once had for its instrument the sword: +But now 't is made, taking the bread away +Which the good Father locks from none. --And thou, +That writes but to cancel, think, that they, +Who for the vineyard, which thou wastest, died, +Peter and Paul live yet, and mark thy doings. +Thou hast good cause to cry, "My heart so cleaves +To him, that liv'd in solitude remote, +And from the wilds was dragg'd to martyrdom, +I wist not of the fisherman nor Paul." + + + + +CANTO XIX + +Before my sight appear'd, with open wings, +The beauteous image, in fruition sweet +Gladdening the thronged spirits. Each did seem +A little ruby, whereon so intense +The sun-beam glow'd that to mine eyes it came +In clear refraction. And that, which next +Befalls me to portray, voice hath not utter'd, +Nor hath ink written, nor in fantasy +Was e'er conceiv'd. For I beheld and heard +The beak discourse; and, what intention form'd +Of many, singly as of one express, +Beginning: "For that I was just and piteous, +l am exalted to this height of glory, +The which no wish exceeds: and there on earth +Have I my memory left, e'en by the bad +Commended, while they leave its course untrod." + +Thus is one heat from many embers felt, +As in that image many were the loves, +And one the voice, that issued from them all. +Whence I address them: "O perennial flowers +Of gladness everlasting! that exhale +In single breath your odours manifold! +Breathe now; and let the hunger be appeas'd, +That with great craving long hath held my soul, +Finding no food on earth. This well I know, +That if there be in heav'n a realm, that shows +In faithful mirror the celestial Justice, +Yours without veil reflects it. Ye discern +The heed, wherewith I do prepare myself +To hearken; ye the doubt that urges me +With such inveterate craving." Straight I saw, +Like to a falcon issuing from the hood, +That rears his head, and claps him with his wings, +His beauty and his eagerness bewraying. +So saw I move that stately sign, with praise +Of grace divine inwoven and high song +Of inexpressive joy. "He," it began, +"Who turn'd his compass on the world's extreme, +And in that space so variously hath wrought, +Both openly, and in secret, in such wise +Could not through all the universe display +Impression of his glory, that the Word +Of his omniscience should not still remain +In infinite excess. In proof whereof, +He first through pride supplanted, who was sum +Of each created being, waited not +For light celestial, and abortive fell. +Whence needs each lesser nature is but scant +Receptacle unto that Good, which knows +No limit, measur'd by itself alone. +Therefore your sight, of th' omnipresent Mind +A single beam, its origin must own +Surpassing far its utmost potency. +The ken, your world is gifted with, descends +In th' everlasting Justice as low down, +As eye doth in the sea; which though it mark +The bottom from the shore, in the wide main +Discerns it not; and ne'ertheless it is, +But hidden through its deepness. Light is none, +Save that which cometh from the pure serene +Of ne'er disturbed ether: for the rest, +'Tis darkness all, or shadow of the flesh, +Or else its poison. Here confess reveal'd +That covert, which hath hidden from thy search +The living justice, of the which thou mad'st +Such frequent question; for thou saidst--'A man +Is born on Indus' banks, and none is there +Who speaks of Christ, nor who doth read nor write, +And all his inclinations and his acts, +As far as human reason sees, are good, +And he offendeth not in word or deed. +But unbaptiz'd he dies, and void of faith. +Where is the justice that condemns him? where +His blame, if he believeth not?'--What then, +And who art thou, that on the stool wouldst sit +To judge at distance of a thousand miles +With the short-sighted vision of a span? +To him, who subtilizes thus with me, +There would assuredly be room for doubt +Even to wonder, did not the safe word +Of scripture hold supreme authority. + +"O animals of clay! O spirits gross I +The primal will, that in itself is good, +Hath from itself, the chief Good, ne'er been mov'd. +Justice consists in consonance with it, +Derivable by no created good, +Whose very cause depends upon its beam." + +As on her nest the stork, that turns about +Unto her young, whom lately she hath fed, +While they with upward eyes do look on her; +So lifted I my gaze; and bending so +The ever-blessed image wav'd its wings, +Lab'ring with such deep counsel. Wheeling round +It warbled, and did say: "As are my notes +To thee, who understand'st them not, such is +Th' eternal judgment unto mortal ken." + +Then still abiding in that ensign rang'd, +Wherewith the Romans over-awed the world, +Those burning splendours of the Holy Spirit +Took up the strain; and thus it spake again: +"None ever hath ascended to this realm, +Who hath not a believer been in Christ, +Either before or after the blest limbs +Were nail'd upon the wood. But lo! of those +Who call 'Christ, Christ,' there shall be many found, + In judgment, further off from him by far, +Than such, to whom his name was never known. +Christians like these the Ethiop shall condemn: +When that the two assemblages shall part; +One rich eternally, the other poor. + +"What may the Persians say unto your kings, +When they shall see that volume, in the which +All their dispraise is written, spread to view? +There amidst Albert's works shall that be read, +Which will give speedy motion to the pen, +When Prague shall mourn her desolated realm. +There shall be read the woe, that he doth work +With his adulterate money on the Seine, +Who by the tusk will perish: there be read +The thirsting pride, that maketh fool alike +The English and Scot, impatient of their bound. +There shall be seen the Spaniard's luxury, +The delicate living there of the Bohemian, +Who still to worth has been a willing stranger. +The halter of Jerusalem shall see +A unit for his virtue, for his vices +No less a mark than million. He, who guards +The isle of fire by old Anchises honour'd +Shall find his avarice there and cowardice; +And better to denote his littleness, +The writing must be letters maim'd, that speak +Much in a narrow space. All there shall know +His uncle and his brother's filthy doings, +Who so renown'd a nation and two crowns +Have bastardized. And they, of Portugal +And Norway, there shall be expos'd with him +Of Ratza, who hath counterfeited ill +The coin of Venice. O blest Hungary! +If thou no longer patiently abid'st +Thy ill-entreating! and, O blest Navarre! +If with thy mountainous girdle thou wouldst arm thee +In earnest of that day, e'en now are heard +Wailings and groans in Famagosta's streets +And Nicosia's, grudging at their beast, +Who keepeth even footing with the rest." + + + + +CANTO XX + +When, disappearing, from our hemisphere, +The world's enlightener vanishes, and day +On all sides wasteth, suddenly the sky, +Erewhile irradiate only with his beam, +Is yet again unfolded, putting forth +Innumerable lights wherein one shines. +Of such vicissitude in heaven I thought, +As the great sign, that marshaleth the world +And the world's leaders, in the blessed beak +Was silent; for that all those living lights, +Waxing in splendour, burst forth into songs, +Such as from memory glide and fall away. + +Sweet love! that dost apparel thee in smiles, +How lustrous was thy semblance in those sparkles, +Which merely are from holy thoughts inspir'd! + +After the precious and bright beaming stones, +That did ingem the sixth light, ceas'd the chiming +Of their angelic bells; methought I heard +The murmuring of a river, that doth fall +From rock to rock transpicuous, making known +The richness of his spring-head: and as sound +Of cistern, at the fret-board, or of pipe, +Is, at the wind-hole, modulate and tun'd; +Thus up the neck, as it were hollow, rose +That murmuring of the eagle, and forthwith +Voice there assum'd, and thence along the beak +Issued in form of words, such as my heart +Did look for, on whose tables I inscrib'd them. + +"The part in me, that sees, and bears the sun,, +In mortal eagles," it began, "must now +Be noted steadfastly: for of the fires, +That figure me, those, glittering in mine eye, +Are chief of all the greatest. This, that shines +Midmost for pupil, was the same, who sang +The Holy Spirit's song, and bare about +The ark from town to town; now doth he know +The merit of his soul-impassion'd strains +By their well-fitted guerdon. Of the five, +That make the circle of the vision, he +Who to the beak is nearest, comforted +The widow for her son: now doth he know +How dear he costeth not to follow Christ, +Both from experience of this pleasant life, +And of its opposite. He next, who follows +In the circumference, for the over arch, +By true repenting slack'd the pace of death: +Now knoweth he, that the degrees of heav'n +Alter not, when through pious prayer below +Today's is made tomorrow's destiny. +The other following, with the laws and me, +To yield the shepherd room, pass'd o'er to Greece, +From good intent producing evil fruit: +Now knoweth he, how all the ill, deriv'd +From his well doing, doth not helm him aught, +Though it have brought destruction on the world. +That, which thou seest in the under bow, +Was William, whom that land bewails, which weeps +For Charles and Frederick living: now he knows +How well is lov'd in heav'n the righteous king, +Which he betokens by his radiant seeming. +Who in the erring world beneath would deem, +That Trojan Ripheus in this round was set +Fifth of the saintly splendours? now he knows +Enough of that, which the world cannot see, +The grace divine, albeit e'en his sight +Reach not its utmost depth." Like to the lark, +That warbling in the air expatiates long, +Then, trilling out his last sweet melody, +Drops satiate with the sweetness; such appear'd +That image stampt by the' everlasting pleasure, +Which fashions like itself all lovely things. + +I, though my doubting were as manifest, +As is through glass the hue that mantles it, +In silence waited not: for to my lips +"What things are these?" involuntary rush'd, +And forc'd a passage out: whereat I mark'd +A sudden lightening and new revelry. +The eye was kindled: and the blessed sign +No more to keep me wond'ring and suspense, +Replied: "I see that thou believ'st these things, +Because I tell them, but discern'st not how; +So that thy knowledge waits not on thy faith: +As one who knows the name of thing by rote, +But is a stranger to its properties, +Till other's tongue reveal them. Fervent love +And lively hope with violence assail +The kingdom of the heavens, and overcome +The will of the Most high; not in such sort +As man prevails o'er man; but conquers it, +Because 't is willing to be conquer'd, still, +Though conquer'd, by its mercy conquering. + +"Those, in the eye who live the first and fifth, +Cause thee to marvel, in that thou behold'st +The region of the angels deck'd with them. +They quitted not their bodies, as thou deem'st, +Gentiles but Christians, in firm rooted faith, +This of the feet in future to be pierc'd, +That of feet nail'd already to the cross. +One from the barrier of the dark abyss, +Where never any with good will returns, +Came back unto his bones. Of lively hope +Such was the meed; of lively hope, that wing'd +The prayers sent up to God for his release, +And put power into them to bend his will. +The glorious Spirit, of whom I speak to thee, +A little while returning to the flesh, +Believ'd in him, who had the means to help, +And, in believing, nourish'd such a flame +Of holy love, that at the second death +He was made sharer in our gamesome mirth. +The other, through the riches of that grace, +Which from so deep a fountain doth distil, +As never eye created saw its rising, +Plac'd all his love below on just and right: +Wherefore of grace God op'd in him the eye +To the redemption of mankind to come; +Wherein believing, he endur'd no more +The filth of paganism, and for their ways +Rebuk'd the stubborn nations. The three nymphs, +Whom at the right wheel thou beheldst advancing, +Were sponsors for him more than thousand years +Before baptizing. O how far remov'd, +Predestination! is thy root from such +As see not the First cause entire: and ye, +O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: +For we, who see our Maker, know not yet +The number of the chosen: and esteem +Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: +For all our good is in that primal good +Concentrate, and God's will and ours are one." + +So, by that form divine, was giv'n to me +Sweet medicine to clear and strengthen sight, +And, as one handling skillfully the harp, +Attendant on some skilful songster's voice +Bids the chords vibrate, and therein the song +Acquires more pleasure; so, the whilst it spake, +It doth remember me, that I beheld +The pair of blessed luminaries move. +Like the accordant twinkling of two eyes, +Their beamy circlets, dancing to the sounds. + + + + +CANTO XXI + +Again mine eyes were fix'd on Beatrice, +And with mine eyes my soul, that in her looks +Found all contentment. Yet no smile she wore +And, "Did I smile," quoth she, "thou wouldst be straight +Like Semele when into ashes turn'd: +For, mounting these eternal palace-stairs, +My beauty, which the loftier it climbs, +As thou hast noted, still doth kindle more, +So shines, that, were no temp'ring interpos'd, +Thy mortal puissance would from its rays +Shrink, as the leaf doth from the thunderbolt. +Into the seventh splendour are we wafted, +That underneath the burning lion's breast +Beams, in this hour, commingled with his might, +Thy mind be with thine eyes: and in them mirror'd +The shape, which in this mirror shall be shown." +Whoso can deem, how fondly I had fed +My sight upon her blissful countenance, +May know, when to new thoughts I chang'd, what joy +To do the bidding of my heav'nly guide: +In equal balance poising either weight. + +Within the crystal, which records the name, +(As its remoter circle girds the world) +Of that lov'd monarch, in whose happy reign +No ill had power to harm, I saw rear'd up, +In colour like to sun-illumin'd gold. + +A ladder, which my ken pursued in vain, +So lofty was the summit; down whose steps +I saw the splendours in such multitude +Descending, ev'ry light in heav'n, methought, +Was shed thence. As the rooks, at dawn of day +Bestirring them to dry their feathers chill, +Some speed their way a-field, and homeward some, +Returning, cross their flight, while some abide +And wheel around their airy lodge; so seem'd +That glitterance, wafted on alternate wing, +As upon certain stair it met, and clash'd +Its shining. And one ling'ring near us, wax'd +So bright, that in my thought: said: "The love, +Which this betokens me, admits no doubt." + +Unwillingly from question I refrain, +To her, by whom my silence and my speech +Are order'd, looking for a sign: whence she, +Who in the sight of Him, that seeth all, +Saw wherefore I was silent, prompted me +T' indulge the fervent wish; and I began: +"I am not worthy, of my own desert, +That thou shouldst answer me; but for her sake, +Who hath vouchsaf'd my asking, spirit blest! +That in thy joy art shrouded! say the cause, +Which bringeth thee so near: and wherefore, say, +Doth the sweet symphony of Paradise +Keep silence here, pervading with such sounds +Of rapt devotion ev'ry lower sphere?" +"Mortal art thou in hearing as in sight;" +Was the reply: "and what forbade the smile +Of Beatrice interrupts our song. +Only to yield thee gladness of my voice, +And of the light that vests me, I thus far +Descend these hallow'd steps: not that more love +Invites me; for lo! there aloft, as much +Or more of love is witness'd in those flames: +But such my lot by charity assign'd, +That makes us ready servants, as thou seest, +To execute the counsel of the Highest." +"That in this court," said I, "O sacred lamp! +Love no compulsion needs, but follows free +Th' eternal Providence, I well discern: +This harder find to deem, why of thy peers +Thou only to this office wert foredoom'd." +I had not ended, when, like rapid mill, +Upon its centre whirl'd the light; and then +The love, that did inhabit there, replied: +"Splendour eternal, piercing through these folds, +Its virtue to my vision knits, and thus +Supported, lifts me so above myself, +That on the sov'ran essence, which it wells from, +I have the power to gaze: and hence the joy, +Wherewith I sparkle, equaling with my blaze +The keenness of my sight. But not the soul, +That is in heav'n most lustrous, nor the seraph +That hath his eyes most fix'd on God, shall solve +What thou hast ask'd: for in th' abyss it lies +Of th' everlasting statute sunk so low, +That no created ken may fathom it. +And, to the mortal world when thou return'st, +Be this reported; that none henceforth dare +Direct his footsteps to so dread a bourn. +The mind, that here is radiant, on the earth +Is wrapt in mist. Look then if she may do, +Below, what passeth her ability, +When she is ta'en to heav'n." By words like these +Admonish'd, I the question urg'd no more; +And of the spirit humbly sued alone +T' instruct me of its state. "'Twixt either shore +Of Italy, nor distant from thy land, +A stony ridge ariseth, in such sort, +The thunder doth not lift his voice so high, +They call it Catria: at whose foot a cell +Is sacred to the lonely Eremite, +For worship set apart and holy rites." +A third time thus it spake; then added: "There +So firmly to God's service I adher'd, +That with no costlier viands than the juice +Of olives, easily I pass'd the heats +Of summer and the winter frosts, content +In heav'n-ward musings. Rich were the returns +And fertile, which that cloister once was us'd +To render to these heavens: now 't is fall'n +Into a waste so empty, that ere long +Detection must lay bare its vanity +Pietro Damiano there was I yclept: +Pietro the sinner, when before I dwelt +Beside the Adriatic, in the house +Of our blest Lady. Near upon my close +Of mortal life, through much importuning +I was constrain'd to wear the hat that still +From bad to worse it shifted.--Cephas came; +He came, who was the Holy Spirit's vessel, +Barefoot and lean, eating their bread, as chanc'd, +At the first table. Modern Shepherd's need +Those who on either hand may prop and lead them, +So burly are they grown: and from behind +Others to hoist them. Down the palfrey's sides +Spread their broad mantles, so as both the beasts +Are cover'd with one skin. O patience! thou +That lookst on this and doth endure so long." +I at those accents saw the splendours down +From step to step alight, and wheel, and wax, +Each circuiting, more beautiful. Round this +They came, and stay'd them; uttered them a shout +So loud, it hath no likeness here: nor I +Wist what it spake, so deaf'ning was the thunder. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Vision of Paradise, Part 2., by Dante Alighieri +Translated By The Rev. H. F. 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