The Divine Comedy By Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, volume 4
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What savage women hath the world e'er seen, What Saracens, for whom there needed scourgeOf spiritual or other discipline, To force them walk with cov'ring on their limbs!But did they see, the shameless ones, that Heav'nWafts on swift wing toward them, while I speak, Their mouths were op'd for howling: they shall tasteOf Borrow (unless foresight cheat me here)Or ere the cheek of him be cloth'd with downWho is now rock'd with lullaby asleep. Ah! now, my brother, hide thyself no more, Thou seest h...ow not I alone but allGaze, where thou veil'st the intercepted sun. " Whence I replied: "If thou recall to mindWhat we were once together, even yetRemembrance of those days may grieve thee sore. That I forsook that life, was due to himWho there precedes me, some few evenings past, When she was round, who shines with sister lampTo his, that glisters yonder, " and I show'dThe sun. "Tis he, who through profoundest nightOf he true dead has brought me, with this fleshAs true, that follows. From that gloom the aidOf his sure comfort drew me on to climb, And climbing wind along this mountain-steep, Which rectifies in you whate'er the worldMade crooked and deprav'd I have his word, That he will bear me company as farAs till I come where Beatrice dwells:But there must leave me.
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