The Divine Comedy By Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, volume 2
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Sweet star! what glorious and thick-studded gemsDeclar'd to me our justice on the earthTo be the effluence of that heav'n, which thou, Thyself a costly jewel, dost inlay!Therefore I pray the Sovran Mind, from whomThy motion and thy virtue are begun, That he would look from whence the fog doth rise, To vitiate thy beam: so that once moreHe may put forth his hand 'gainst such, as driveTheir traffic in that sanctuary, whose wallsWith miracles and martyrdoms were built. Ye host of heaven! whose... glory I survey!O beg ye grace for those, that are on earthAll after ill example gone astray. War once had for its instrument the sword:But now 't is made, taking the bread awayWhich the good Father locks from none. --And thou, That writes but to cancel, think, that they, Who for the vineyard, which thou wastest, died, Peter and Paul live yet, and mark thy doings. Thou hast good cause to cry, "My heart so cleavesTo him, that liv'd in solitude remote, And from the wilds was dragg'd to martyrdom, I wist not of the fisherman nor Paul.
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