But Vatican and the other parts elect Of Rome, which have a cemetery been Unto the soldiery that followed Peter, Shall soon be free from the adulterer." 140 L CANTO Х. OOKING into his Son with all the Love Which each of them eternally breathes forth, The primal and unutterable Power Whate'er before the mind or eye revolves With so much order made, there can be none That Master's art, who in himself so loves it 5 15 20 Remain now, Reader, still upon thy bench, 25 That theme whereof I have been made the scribe. The greatest of the ministers of nature, Who with the power of heaven the world imprints And measures with his light the time for us, With that part which above is called to mind Conjoined, along the spirals was revolving, I was not conscious, saving as a man From good to better, and so suddenly I, though I call on genius, art, and practice, For altitude so great, it is no marvel, Of the high Father, who forever sates it, 30 35 40 45 50 And Beatrice began: "Give thanks, give thanks To worship, nor to give itself to God We sometimes see, when pregnant is the air, 55 60 65 So that it holds the thread which makes her zone. Within the court of Heaven, whence I return, Are many jewels found, so fair and precious They cannot be transported from the realm; And of them was the singing of those lights. 70 Who takes not wings that he may fly up thither, Had roundabout us whirled themselves three times, 80 0 And within one I heard beginning: "When True love, and which thereafter grows by loving, Within thee multiplied is so resplendent That it conducts thee upward by that stair, Where without reascending none descends, Who should deny the wine out of his vial Unto thy thirst, in liberty were not Except as water which descends not seaward. 85 90 Fain wouldst thou know with what plants is enflowered This garland that encircles with delight The Lady fair who makes thee strong for heaven. Of the lambs was I of the holy flock Which Dominic conducteth by a road Where well one fattens if he strayeth not. He who is nearest to me on the right My brother and master was; and he Albertus Is of Cologne, I Thomas of Aquinum. If thou of all the others wouldst be certain, Follow behind my speaking with thy sight Upward along the blessed garland turning. That next effulgence issues from the smile Of Gratian, who assisted both the courts That Peter was who, e'en as the poor widow, The fifth light, that among us is the fairest, Breathes forth from such a love, that all the world Below is greedy to learn tidings of it. VOL. III. 3 D 95 105 ΓΙΟ Within it is the lofty mind, where knowledge So deep was put, that, if the true be true, Which in the flesh below looked most within The advocate of the Christian centuries, Out of whose rhetoric Augustine was furnished. Now if thou trainest thy mind's eye along From light to light pursuant of my praise, The sainted soul, which the fallacious world 115 120 125 130 In his grave meditations death seemed slow. 135 It is the light eternal of Sigier, Who, reading lectures in the Street of Straw, Did syllogize invidious verities." Then, as a horologe that calleth us What time the Bride of God is rising up 140 With matins to her Spouse that he may love her, |