the divine comedy(神曲)-第68章
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Therefore bequeathed they Ethics to the world。
Supposing; then; that from necessity
Springs every love that is within you kindled;
Within yourselves the power is to restrain it。
The noble virtue Beatrice understands
By the free will; and therefore see that thou
Bear it in mind; if she should speak of it。〃
The moon; belated almost unto midnight;
Now made the stars appear to us more rare;
Formed like a bucket; that is all ablaze;
And counter to the heavens ran through those paths
Which the sun sets aflame; when he of Rome
Sees it 'twixt Sardes and Corsicans go down;
And that patrician shade; for whom is named
Pietola more than any Mantuan town;
Had laid aside the burden of my lading;
Whence I; who reason manifest and plain
In answer to my questions had received;
Stood like a man in drowsy reverie。
But taken from me was this drowsiness
Suddenly by a people; that behind
Our backs already had come round to us。
And as; of old; Ismenus and Asopus
Beside them saw at night the rush and throng;
If but the Thebans were in need of Bacchus;
So they along that circle curve their step;
From what I saw of those approaching us;
Who by good…will and righteous love are ridden。
Full soon they were upon us; because running
Moved onward all that mighty multitude;
And two in the advance cried out; lamenting;
〃Mary in haste unto the mountain ran;
And Caesar; that he might subdue Ilerda;
Thrust at Marseilles; and then ran into Spain。〃
〃Quick! quick! so that the time may not be lost
By little love!〃 forthwith the others cried;
〃For ardour in well…doing freshens grace!〃
〃O folk; in whom an eager fervour now
Supplies perhaps delay and negligence;
Put by you in well…doing; through lukewarmness;
This one who lives; and truly I lie not;
Would fain go up; if but the sun relight us;
So tell us where the passage nearest is。〃
These were the words of him who was my Guide;
And some one of those spirits said: 〃Come on
Behind us; and the opening shalt thou find;
So full of longing are we to move onward;
That stay we cannot; therefore pardon us;
If thou for churlishness our justice take。
I was San Zeno's Abbot at Verona;
Under the empire of good Barbarossa;
Of whom still sorrowing Milan holds discourse;
And he has one foot in the grave already;
Who shall erelong lament that monastery;
And sorry be of having there had power;
Because his son; in his whole body sick;
And worse in mind; and who was evil…born;
He put into the place of its true pastor。〃
If more he said; or silent was; I know not;
He had already passed so far beyond us;
But this I heard; and to retain it pleased me。
And he who was in every need my succour
Said: 〃Turn thee hitherward; see two of them
Come fastening upon slothfulness their teeth。〃
In rear of all they shouted: 〃Sooner were
The people dead to whom the sea was opened;
Than their inheritors the Jordan saw;
And those who the fatigue did not endure
Unto the issue; with Anchises' son;
Themselves to life withouten glory offered。〃
Then when from us so separated were
Those shades; that they no longer could be seen;
Within me a new thought did entrance find;
Whence others many and diverse were born;
And so I lapsed from one into another;
That in a reverie mine eyes I closed;
And meditation into dream transmuted。
Purgatorio: Canto XIX
It was the hour when the diurnal heat
No more can warm the coldness of the moon;
Vanquished by earth; or peradventure Saturn;
When geomancers their Fortuna Major
See in the orient before the dawn
Rise by a path that long remains not dim;
There came to me in dreams a stammering woman;
Squint in her eyes; and in her feet distorted;
With hands dissevered and of sallow hue。
I looked at her; and as the sun restores
The frigid members which the night benumbs;
Even thus my gaze did render voluble
Her tongue; and made her all erect thereafter
In little while; and the lost countenance
As love desires it so in her did colour。
When in this wise she had her speech unloosed;
She 'gan to sing so; that with difficulty
Could I have turned my thoughts away from her。
〃I am;〃 she sang; 〃I am the Siren sweet
Who mariners amid the main unman;
So full am I of pleasantness to hear。
I drew Ulysses from his wandering way
Unto my song; and he who dwells with me
Seldom departs so wholly I content him。〃
Her mouth was not yet closed again; before
Appeared a Lady saintly and alert
Close at my side to put her to confusion。
〃Virgilius; O Virgilius! who is this?〃
Sternly she said; and he was drawing near
With eyes still fixed upon that modest one。
She seized the other and in front laid open;
Rending her garments; and her belly showed me;
This waked me with the stench that issued from it。
I turned mine eyes; and good Virgilius said:
〃At least thrice have I called thee; rise and come;
Find we the opening by which thou mayst enter。〃
I rose; and full already of high day
Were all the circles of the Sacred Mountain;
And with the new sun at our back we went。
Following behind him; I my forehead bore
Like unto one who has it laden with thought;
Who makes himself the half arch of a bridge;
When I heard say; 〃Come; here the passage is;〃
Spoken in a manner gentle and benign;
Such as we hear not in this mortal region。
With open wings; which of a swan appeared;
Upward he turned us who thus spake to us;
Between the two walls of the solid granite。
He moved his pinions afterwards and fanned us;
Affirming those 'qui lugent' to be blessed;
For they shall have their souls with comfort filled。
〃What aileth thee; that aye to earth thou gazest?〃
To me my Guide began to say; we both
Somewhat beyond the Angel having mounted。
And I: 〃With such misgiving makes me go
A vision new; which bends me to itself;
So that I cannot from the thought withdraw me。〃
〃Didst thou behold;〃 he said; 〃that old enchantress;
Who sole above us henceforth is lamented?
Didst thou behold how man is freed from her?
Suffice it thee; and smite earth with thy heels;
Thine eyes lift upward to the lure; that whirls
The Eternal King with revolutions vast。〃
Even as the hawk; that first his feet surveys;
Then turns him to the call and stretches forward;
Through the desire of food that draws him thither;
Such I became; and such; as far as cleaves
The rock to give a way to him who mounts;
Went on to where the circling doth begin。
On the fifth circle when I had come forth;
People I saw upon it who were weeping;
Stretched prone upon the ground; all downward turned。
〃Adhaesit pavimento anima mea;〃
I heard them say with sighings so profound;
That hardly could the words be understood。
〃O ye elect of God; whose sufferings
Justice and Hope both render less severe;
Direct ye us towards the high ascents。〃
〃If ye are come secure from this prostration;
And wish to find the way most speedily;
Let your right hands be evermore outside。〃
Thus did the Poet ask; and thus was answered
By them somewhat in front of us; whence I
In what was spoken divined the rest concealed;
And unto my Lord's eyes mine eyes I turned;
Whence he assented with a cheerful sign
To what the sight of my desire implored。
When of myself I could dispose at will;
Above that creature did I draw myself;
Whose words before had caused me to take note;
Saying: 〃O Spirit; in whom weeping ripens
That without which to God we cannot turn;
Suspend awhile for me thy greater care。
Who wast thou; and why are your backs turned upwards;
Tell me; and if thou wouldst that I procure thee
Anything there whence living I departed。〃
And he to me: 〃Wherefore our backs the heaven
Turns to itself; know shalt thou; but beforehand
'Scias quod ego fui successor Petri。'
Between Siestri and Chiaveri descends
A river beautiful; and of its name
The title of my blood its summit makes。
A month and little more essayed I how
Weighs the great cloak on him from mire wh