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  When nearest to the paddles it approaches;

As did my Master down along that border;
  Bearing me with him on his breast away;
  As his own son; and not as a companion。

Hardly the bed of the ravine below
  His feet had reached; ere they had reached the hill
  Right over us; but he was not afraid;

For the high Providence; which had ordained
  To place them ministers of the fifth moat;
  The power of thence departing took from all。

A painted people there below we found;
  Who went about with footsteps very slow;
  Weeping and in their semblance tired and vanquished。

They had on mantles with the hoods low down
  Before their eyes; and fashioned of the cut
  That in Cologne they for the monks are made。

Without; they gilded are so that it dazzles;
  But inwardly all leaden and so heavy
  That Frederick used to put them on of straw。

O everlastingly fatiguing mantle!
  Again we turned us; still to the left hand
  Along with them; intent on their sad plaint;

But owing to the weight; that weary folk
  Came on so tardily; that we were new
  In company at each motion of the haunch。

Whence I unto my Leader: 〃See thou find
  Some one who may by deed or name be known;
  And thus in going move thine eye about。〃

And one; who understood the Tuscan speech;
  Cried to us from behind: 〃Stay ye your feet;
  Ye; who so run athwart the dusky air!

Perhaps thou'lt have from me what thou demandest。〃
  Whereat the Leader turned him; and said: 〃Wait;
  And then according to his pace proceed。〃

I stopped; and two beheld I show great haste
  Of spirit; in their faces; to be with me;
  But the burden and the narrow way delayed them。

When they came up; long with an eye askance
  They scanned me without uttering a word。
  Then to each other turned; and said together:

〃He by the action of his throat seems living;
  And if they dead are; by what privilege
  Go they uncovered by the heavy stole?〃

Then said to me: 〃Tuscan; who to the college
  Of miserable hypocrites art come;
  Do not disdain to tell us who thou art。〃

And I to them: 〃Born was I; and grew up
  In the great town on the fair river of Arno;
  And with the body am I've always had。

But who are ye; in whom there trickles down
  Along your cheeks such grief as I behold?
  And what pain is upon you; that so sparkles?〃

And one replied to me: 〃These orange cloaks
  Are made of lead so heavy; that the weights
  Cause in this way their balances to creak。

Frati Gaudenti were we; and Bolognese;
  I Catalano; and he Loderingo
  Named; and together taken by thy city;

As the wont is to take one man alone;
  For maintenance of its peace; and we were such
  That still it is apparent round Gardingo。〃

〃O Friars;〃 began I; 〃your iniquitous。 。 。〃
  But said no more; for to mine eyes there rushed
  One crucified with three stakes on the ground。

When me he saw; he writhed himself all over;
  Blowing into his beard with suspirations;
  And the Friar Catalan; who noticed this;

Said to me: 〃This transfixed one; whom thou seest;
  Counselled the Pharisees that it was meet
  To put one man to torture for the people。

Crosswise and naked is he on the path;
  As thou perceivest; and he needs must feel;
  Whoever passes; first how much he weighs;

And in like mode his father…in…law is punished
  Within this moat; and the others of the council;
  Which for the Jews was a malignant seed。〃

And thereupon I saw Virgilius marvel
  O'er him who was extended on the cross
  So vilely in eternal banishment。

Then he directed to the Friar this voice:
  〃Be not displeased; if granted thee; to tell us
  If to the right hand any pass slope down

By which we two may issue forth from here;
  Without constraining some of the black angels
  To come and extricate us from this deep。〃

Then he made answer: 〃Nearer than thou hopest
  There is a rock; that forth from the great circle
  Proceeds; and crosses all the cruel valleys;

Save that at this 'tis broken; and does not bridge it;
  You will be able to mount up the ruin;
  That sidelong slopes and at the bottom rises。〃

The Leader stood awhile with head bowed down;
  Then said: 〃The business badly he recounted
  Who grapples with his hook the sinners yonder。〃

And the Friar: 〃Many of the Devil's vices
  Once heard I at Bologna; and among them;
  That he's a liar and the father of lies。〃

Thereat my Leader with great strides went on;
  Somewhat disturbed with anger in his looks;
  Whence from the heavy…laden I departed

After the prints of his beloved feet。



Inferno: Canto XXIV


In that part of the youthful year wherein
  The Sun his locks beneath Aquarius tempers;
  And now the nights draw near to half the day;

What time the hoar…frost copies on the ground
  The outward semblance of her sister white;
  But little lasts the temper of her pen;

The husbandman; whose forage faileth him;
  Rises; and looks; and seeth the champaign
  All gleaming white; whereat he beats his flank;

Returns in doors; and up and down laments;
  Like a poor wretch; who knows not what to do;
  Then he returns and hope revives again;

Seeing the world has changed its countenance
  In little time; and takes his shepherd's crook;
  And forth the little lambs to pasture drives。

Thus did the Master fill me with alarm;
  When I beheld his forehead so disturbed;
  And to the ailment came as soon the plaster。

For as we came unto the ruined bridge;
  The Leader turned to me with that sweet look
  Which at the mountain's foot I first beheld。

His arms he opened; after some advisement
  Within himself elected; looking first
  Well at the ruin; and laid hold of me。

And even as he who acts and meditates;
  For aye it seems that he provides beforehand;
  So upward lifting me towards the summit

Of a huge rock; he scanned another crag;
  Saying: 〃To that one grapple afterwards;
  But try first if 'tis such that it will hold thee。〃

This was no way for one clothed with a cloak;
  For hardly we; he light; and I pushed upward;
  Were able to ascend from jag to jag。

And had it not been; that upon that precinct
  Shorter was the ascent than on the other;
  He I know not; but I had been dead beat。

But because Malebolge tow'rds the mouth
  Of the profoundest well is all inclining;
  The structure of each valley doth import

That one bank rises and the other sinks。
  Still we arrived at length upon the point
  Wherefrom the last stone breaks itself asunder。

The breath was from my lungs so milked away;
  When I was up; that I could go no farther;
  Nay; I sat down upon my first arrival。

〃Now it behoves thee thus to put off sloth;〃
  My Master said; 〃for sitting upon down;
  Or under quilt; one cometh not to fame;

Withouten which whoso his life consumes
  Such vestige leaveth of himself on earth;
  As smoke in air or in the water foam。

And therefore raise thee up; o'ercome the anguish
  With spirit that o'ercometh every battle;
  If with its heavy body it sink not。

A longer stairway it behoves thee mount;
  'Tis not enough from these to have departed;
  Let it avail thee; if thou understand me。〃

Then I uprose; showing myself provided
  Better with breath than I did feel myself;
  And said: 〃Go on; for I am strong and bold。〃

Upward we took our way along the crag;
  Which jagged was; and narrow; and difficult;
  And more precipitous far than that before。

Speaking I went; not to appear exhausted;
  Whereat a voice from the next moat came forth;
  Not well adapted to articulate words。

I know not what it said; though o'er the back
  I now was of the arch that passes there;
  But he seemed moved to anger who was speaking。

I was bent downward; but my living eyes
  Could not attain the bottom; for the dark;
  Wherefore I: 〃Master; see that thou arrive

At the next round; and let us descend the wall;
  For as from hence I hear and understand not;
  So I look down and nothing I distinguish。〃

〃Other response;〃 he said; 〃I make thee not;
  Except the doing; for the modest asking
  Ought to be followed by the deed in silence。〃

We from the bridge descended at its head;
  Where it con

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