The Divine Comedy By Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, volume 5
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Already had my steps, Though slow, so far into that ancient woodTransported me, I could not ken the placeWhere I had enter'd, when behold! my pathWas bounded by a rill, which to the leftWith little rippling waters bent the grass, That issued from its brink. On earth no waveHow clean soe'er, that would not seem to haveSome mixture in itself, compar'd with this, Transpicuous, clear; yet darkly on it roll'd, Darkly beneath perpetual gloom, which ne'erAdmits or sun or moon light there to shine. My ...feet advanc'd not; but my wond'ring eyesPass'd onward, o'er the streamlet, to surveyThe tender May-bloom, flush'd through many a hue, In prodigal variety: and there, As object, rising suddenly to view, That from our bosom every thought besideWith the rare marvel chases, I beheldA lady all alone, who, singing, went, And culling flower from flower, wherewith her wayWas all o'er painted. "Lady beautiful!Thou, who (if looks, that use to speak the heart, Are worthy of our trust), with love's own beamDost warm thee, " thus to her my speech I fram'd:"Ah!
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