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  After the fiery Spirit sanctified you;

In Persons three eterne believe; and these
  One essence I believe; so one and trine
  They bear conjunction both with 'sunt' and 'est。'

With the profound condition and divine
  Which now I touch upon; doth stamp my mind
  Ofttimes the doctrine evangelical。

This the beginning is; this is the spark
  Which afterwards dilates to vivid flame;
  And; like a star in heaven; is sparkling in me。〃

Even as a lord who hears what pleaseth him
  His servant straight embraces; gratulating
  For the good news as soon as he is silent;

So; giving me its benediction; singing;
  Three times encircled me; when I was silent;
  The apostolic light; at whose command

I spoken had; in speaking I so pleased him。



Paradiso: Canto XXV


If e'er it happen that the Poem Sacred;
  To which both heaven and earth have set their hand;
  So that it many a year hath made me lean;

O'ercome the cruelty that bars me out
  From the fair sheepfold; where a lamb I slumbered;
  An enemy to the wolves that war upon it;

With other voice forthwith; with other fleece
  Poet will I return; and at my font
  Baptismal will I take the laurel crown;

Because into the Faith that maketh known
  All souls to God there entered I; and then
  Peter for her sake thus my brow encircled。

Thereafterward towards us moved a light
  Out of that band whence issued the first…fruits
  Which of his vicars Christ behind him left;

And then my Lady; full of ecstasy;
  Said unto me: 〃Look; look! behold the Baron
  For whom below Galicia is frequented。〃

In the same way as; when a dove alights
  Near his companion; both of them pour forth;
  Circling about and murmuring; their affection;

So one beheld I by the other grand
  Prince glorified to be with welcome greeted;
  Lauding the food that there above is eaten。

But when their gratulations were complete;
  Silently 'coram me' each one stood still;
  So incandescent it o'ercame my sight。

Smiling thereafterwards; said Beatrice:
  〃Illustrious life; by whom the benefactions
  Of our Basilica have been described;

Make Hope resound within this altitude;
  Thou knowest as oft thou dost personify it
  As Jesus to the three gave greater clearness。〃

〃Lift up thy head; and make thyself assured;
  For what comes hither from the mortal world
  Must needs be ripened in our radiance。〃

This comfort came to me from the second fire;
  Wherefore mine eyes I lifted to the hills;
  Which bent them down before with too great weight。

〃Since; through his grace; our Emperor wills that thou
  Shouldst find thee face to face; before thy death;
  In the most secret chamber; with his Counts;

So that; the truth beholden of this court;
  Hope; which below there rightfully enamours;
  Thereby thou strengthen in thyself and others;

Say what it is; and how is flowering with it
  Thy mind; and say from whence it came to thee。〃
  Thus did the second light again continue。

And the Compassionate; who piloted
  The plumage of my wings in such high flight;
  Did in reply anticipate me thus:

〃No child whatever the Church Militant
  Of greater hope possesses; as is written
  In that Sun which irradiates all our band;

Therefore it is conceded him from Egypt
  To come into Jerusalem to see;
  Or ever yet his warfare be completed。

The two remaining points; that not for knowledge
  Have been demanded; but that he report
  How much this virtue unto thee is pleasing;

To him I leave; for hard he will not find them;
  Nor of self…praise; and let him answer them;
  And may the grace of God in this assist him!〃

As a disciple; who his teacher follows;
  Ready and willing; where he is expert;
  That his proficiency may be displayed;

〃Hope;〃 said I; 〃is the certain expectation
  Of future glory; which is the effect
  Of grace divine and merit precedent。

From many stars this light comes unto me;
  But he instilled it first into my heart
  Who was chief singer unto the chief captain。

'Sperent in te;' in the high Theody
  He sayeth; 'those who know thy name;' and who
  Knoweth it not; if he my faith possess?

Thou didst instil me; then; with his instilling
  In the Epistle; so that I am full;
  And upon others rain again your rain。〃

While I was speaking; in the living bosom
  Of that combustion quivered an effulgence;
  Sudden and frequent; in the guise of lightning;

Then breathed: 〃The love wherewith I am inflamed
  Towards the virtue still which followed me
  Unto the palm and issue of the field;

Wills that I breathe to thee that thou delight
  In her; and grateful to me is thy telling
  Whatever things Hope promises to thee。〃

And I: 〃The ancient Scriptures and the new
  The mark establish; and this shows it me;
  Of all the souls whom God hath made his friends。

Isaiah saith; that each one garmented
  In his own land shall be with twofold garments;
  And his own land is this delightful life。

Thy brother; too; far more explicitly;
  There where he treateth of the robes of white;
  This revelation manifests to us。〃

And first; and near the ending of these words;
  〃Sperent in te〃 from over us was heard;
  To which responsive answered all the carols。

Thereafterward a light among them brightened;
  So that; if Cancer one such crystal had;
  Winter would have a month of one sole day。

And as uprises; goes; and enters the dance
  A winsome maiden; only to do honour
  To the new bride; and not from any failing;

Even thus did I behold the brightened splendour
  Approach the two; who in a wheel revolved
  As was beseeming to their ardent love。

Into the song and music there it entered;
  And fixed on them my Lady kept her look;
  Even as a bride silent and motionless。

〃This is the one who lay upon the breast
  Of him our Pelican; and this is he
  To the great office from the cross elected。〃

My Lady thus; but therefore none the more
  Did move her sight from its attentive gaze
  Before or afterward these words of hers。

Even as a man who gazes; and endeavours
  To see the eclipsing of the sun a little;
  And who; by seeing; sightless doth become;

So I became before that latest fire;
  While it was said; 〃Why dost thou daze thyself
  To see a thing which here hath no existence?

Earth in the earth my body is; and shall be
  With all the others there; until our number
  With the eternal proposition tallies。

With the two garments in the blessed cloister
  Are the two lights alone that have ascended:
  And this shalt thou take back into your world。〃

And at this utterance the flaming circle
  Grew quiet; with the dulcet intermingling
  Of sound that by the trinal breath was made;

As to escape from danger or fatigue
  The oars that erst were in the water beaten
  Are all suspended at a whistle's sound。

Ah; how much in my mind was I disturbed;
  When I turned round to look on Beatrice;
  That her I could not see; although I was

Close at her side and in the Happy World!



Paradiso: Canto XXVI


While I was doubting for my vision quenched;
  Out of the flame refulgent that had quenched it
  Issued a breathing; that attentive made me;

Saying: 〃While thou recoverest the sense
  Of seeing which in me thou hast consumed;
  'Tis well that speaking thou shouldst compensate it。

Begin then; and declare to what thy soul
  Is aimed; and count it for a certainty;
  Sight is in thee bewildered and not dead;

Because the Lady; who through this divine
  Region conducteth thee; has in her look
  The power the hand of Ananias had。〃

I said: 〃As pleaseth her; or soon or late
  Let the cure come to eyes that portals were
  When she with fire I ever burn with entered。

The Good; that gives contentment to this Court;
  The Alpha and Omega is of all
  The writing that love reads me low or loud。〃

The selfsame voice; that taken had from me
  The terror of the sudden dazzlement;
  To speak still farther put it in my thought;

And said: 〃In verity with finer sieve
  Behoveth thee to sift; thee it behoveth
  To say who aimed thy bow at such a target。〃

And I: 〃By philosophic arguments;
  And by authority that hence d

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