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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

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