The Divine Comedy By Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, volume 3
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" Lonely each, my guide and IPursued our upward way; and as we went, Some profit from his words I hop'd to win, And thus of him inquiring, fram'd my speech: "What meant Romagna's spirit, when he spakeOf bliss exclusive with no partner shar'd?" He straight replied: "No wonder, since he knows, What sorrow waits on his own worst defect, If he chide others, that they less may mourn. Because ye point your wishes at a mark, Where, by communion of possessors, partIs lessen'd, envy bloweth up the sighs... of men. No fear of that might touch ye, if the loveOf higher sphere exalted your desire. For there, by how much more they call it ours, So much propriety of each in goodIncreases more, and heighten'd charityWraps that fair cloister in a brighter flame. " "Now lack I satisfaction more, " said I, "Than if thou hadst been silent at the first, And doubt more gathers on my lab'ring thought. How can it chance, that good distributed, The many, that possess it, makes more rich, Than if 't were shar'd by few?" He answering thus:"Thy mind, reverting still to things of earth, Strikes darkness from true light.
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