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The dames and cavaliers; the toils and ease
  That filled our souls with love and courtesy;
  There where the hearts have so malicious grown!

O Brettinoro! why dost thou not flee;
  Seeing that all thy family is gone;
  And many people; not to be corrupted?

Bagnacaval does well in not begetting
  And ill does Castrocaro; and Conio worse;
  In taking trouble to beget such Counts。

Will do well the Pagani; when their Devil
  Shall have departed; but not therefore pure
  Will testimony of them e'er remain。

O Ugolin de' Fantoli; secure
  Thy name is; since no longer is awaited
  One who; degenerating; can obscure it!

But go now; Tuscan; for it now delights me
  To weep far better than it does to speak;
  So much has our discourse my mind distressed。〃

We were aware that those beloved souls
  Heard us depart; therefore; by keeping silent;
  They made us of our pathway confident。

When we became alone by going onward;
  Thunder; when it doth cleave the air; appeared
  A voice; that counter to us came; exclaiming:

〃Shall slay me whosoever findeth me!〃
  And fled as the reverberation dies
  If suddenly the cloud asunder bursts。

As soon as hearing had a truce from this;
  Behold another; with so great a crash;
  That it resembled thunderings following fast:

〃I am Aglaurus; who became a stone!〃
  And then; to press myself close to the Poet;
  I backward; and not forward; took a step。

Already on all sides the air was quiet;
  And said he to me: 〃That was the hard curb
  That ought to hold a man within his bounds;

But you take in the bait so that the hook
  Of the old Adversary draws you to him;
  And hence availeth little curb or call。

The heavens are calling you; and wheel around you;
  Displaying to you their eternal beauties;
  And still your eye is looking on the ground;

Whence He; who all discerns; chastises you。〃



Purgatorio: Canto XV


As much as 'twixt the close of the third hour
  And dawn of day appeareth of that sphere
  Which aye in fashion of a child is playing;

So much it now appeared; towards the night;
  Was of his course remaining to the sun;
  There it was evening; and 'twas midnight here;

And the rays smote the middle of our faces;
  Because by us the mount was so encircled;
  That straight towards the west we now were going

When I perceived my forehead overpowered
  Beneath the splendour far more than at first;
  And stupor were to me the things unknown;

Whereat towards the summit of my brow
  I raised my hands; and made myself the visor
  Which the excessive glare diminishes。

As when from off the water; or a mirror;
  The sunbeam leaps unto the opposite side;
  Ascending upward in the selfsame measure

That it descends; and deviates as far
  From falling of a stone in line direct;
  (As demonstrate experiment and art;)

So it appeared to me that by a light
  Refracted there before me I was smitten;
  On which account my sight was swift to flee。

〃What is that; Father sweet; from which I cannot
  So fully screen my sight that it avail me;〃
  Said I; 〃and seems towards us to be moving?〃

〃Marvel thou not; if dazzle thee as yet
  The family of heaven;〃 he answered me;
  〃An angel 'tis; who comes to invite us upward。

Soon will it be; that to behold these things
  Shall not be grievous; but delightful to thee
  As much as nature fashioned thee to feel。〃

When we had reached the Angel benedight;
  With joyful voice he said: 〃Here enter in
  To stairway far less steep than are the others。〃

We mounting were; already thence departed;
  And 〃Beati misericordes〃 was
  Behind us sung; 〃Rejoice; thou that o'ercomest!〃

My Master and myself; we two alone
  Were going upward; and I thought; in going;
  Some profit to acquire from words of his;

And I to him directed me; thus asking:
  〃What did the spirit of Romagna mean;
  Mentioning interdict and partnership?〃

Whence he to me: 〃Of his own greatest failing
  He knows the harm; and therefore wonder not
  If he reprove us; that we less may rue it。

Because are thither pointed your desires
  Where by companionship each share is lessened;
  Envy doth ply the bellows to your sighs。

But if the love of the supernal sphere
  Should upwardly direct your aspiration;
  There would not be that fear within your breast;

For there; as much the more as one says 'Our;'
  So much the more of good each one possesses;
  And more of charity in that cloister burns。〃

〃I am more hungering to be satisfied;〃
  I said; 〃than if I had before been silent;
  And more of doubt within my mind I gather。

How can it be; that boon distributed
  The more possessors can more wealthy make
  Therein; than if by few it be possessed?〃

And he to me: 〃Because thou fixest still
  Thy mind entirely upon earthly things;
  Thou pluckest darkness from the very light。

That goodness infinite and ineffable
  Which is above there; runneth unto love;
  As to a lucid body comes the sunbeam。

So much it gives itself as it finds ardour;
  So that as far as charity extends;
  O'er it increases the eternal valour。

And the more people thitherward aspire;
  More are there to love well; and more they love there;
  And; as a mirror; one reflects the other。

And if my reasoning appease thee not;
  Thou shalt see Beatrice; and she will fully
  Take from thee this and every other longing。

Endeavour; then; that soon may be extinct;
  As are the two already; the five wounds
  That close themselves again by being painful。〃

Even as I wished to say; 〃Thou dost appease me;〃
  I saw that I had reached another circle;
  So that my eager eyes made me keep silence。

There it appeared to me that in a vision
  Ecstatic on a sudden I was rapt;
  And in a temple many persons saw;

And at the door a woman; with the sweet
  Behaviour of a mother; saying: 〃Son;
  Why in this manner hast thou dealt with us?

Lo; sorrowing; thy father and myself
  Were seeking for thee;〃and as here she ceased;
  That which appeared at first had disappeared。

Then I beheld another with those waters
  Adown her cheeks which grief distils whenever
  From great disdain of others it is born;

And saying: 〃If of that city thou art lord;
  For whose name was such strife among the gods;
  And whence doth every science scintillate;

Avenge thyself on those audacious arms
  That clasped our daughter; O Pisistratus;〃
  And the lord seemed to me benign and mild

To answer her with aspect temperate:
  〃What shall we do to those who wish us ill;
  If he who loves us be by us condemned?〃

Then saw I people hot in fire of wrath;
  With stones a young man slaying; clamorously
  Still crying to each other; 〃Kill him! kill him!〃

And him I saw bow down; because of death
  That weighed already on him; to the earth;
  But of his eyes made ever gates to heaven;

Imploring the high Lord; in so great strife;
  That he would pardon those his persecutors;
  With such an aspect as unlocks compassion。

Soon as my soul had outwardly returned
  To things external to it which are true;
  Did I my not false errors recognize。

My Leader; who could see me bear myself
  Like to a man that rouses him from sleep;
  Exclaimed: 〃What ails thee; that thou canst not stand?

But hast been coming more than half a league
  Veiling thine eyes; and with thy legs entangled;
  In guise of one whom wine or sleep subdues?〃

〃O my sweet Father; if thou listen to me;
  I'll tell thee;〃 said I; 〃what appeared to me;
  When thus from me my legs were ta'en away。〃

And he: 〃If thou shouldst have a hundred masks
  Upon thy face; from me would not be shut
  Thy cogitations; howsoever small。

What thou hast seen was that thou mayst not fail
  To ope thy heart unto the waters of peace;
  Which from the eternal fountain are diffused。

I did not ask; 'What ails thee?' as he does
  Who only looketh with the eyes that see not
  When of the soul bereft the body lies;

But asked it to give vigour to thy feet;
  Thus must we needs urge on the sluggards; slow
  To use their wakefulness when it returns。〃

We passed along; athwart the twilight peering
  Forward as far as ever eye co

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