La Divina Commedia the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
La Divina Commedia the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
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There to sit down awhile we both were fain, Facing the East whence we had made ascent; For, looking back, a man takes heart again. Mine eyes at first to the low shores were bent, Thereafter lifted to the Sun, whose glow Struck us from leftward, to my wonderment. The Poet well perceived me gazing so Upon the Car of Light with wonder, where It entered between us and Aquilo. Whence he: "If Castor and if Pollux were Companions with that mirror which sheds back The light divine to either hemisphere,... Thou wouldst behold him blaze in Zodiac, Unto the Bears revolving still more nigh, Unless the sun should quit his ancient track. If thou wouldst understand the reason why, With centered thought imagine Zion-hill On earth set over against this mountain high, Belacqua Chaffs Dante 161 So that they both have one horizon still And hemispheres diverse; then wilt thou see, If to take heed thine intellect have skill, How the highway that Phaeton, ah me! Knew not to course, must pass upon that side This mountain, and this side of Zion be.
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