The Divine Comedy By Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, volume 3
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There, whence at thy lady's hestThe Mantuan mov'd him, still was I debarr'dThis council, till the sun had made complete, Four thousand and three hundred rounds and twice, His annual journey; and, through every lightIn his broad pathway, saw I him return, Thousand save sev'nty times, the whilst I dweltUpon the earth. The language I did useWas worn away, or ever Nimrod's raceTheir unaccomplishable work began. For naught, that man inclines to, ere was lasting, Left by his reason free, and variable..., As is the sky that sways him. That he speaks, Is nature's prompting: whether thus or thus, She leaves to you, as ye do most affect it. Ere I descended into hell's abyss, El was the name on earth of the Chief Good, Whose joy enfolds me: Eli then 't was call'dAnd so beseemeth: for, in mortals, useIs as the leaf upon the bough; that goes, And other comes instead. Upon the mountMost high above the waters, all my life, Both innocent and guilty, did but reachFrom the first hour, to that which cometh next(As the sun changes quarter), to the sixth.
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