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Title: The vision;
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 Cary, Henry Francis, 1772-1844, tr
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nfined,Bat that, with love intenser, there thou view*stThy primal effluence ; hallowed be thy name:Join, each created being, to extolThy might; for worthy humblest thanks and praisnIs :hy b.est Spirit. May rhy uiuuiuu s pe::e-Conae unto us : :or vre. urn ess :t come.V^ itn ali our striving, thinner tena in Wit-: -.---■--,-.--- .,.,,---■-..,■-, -. ,By saintly men m earta. Grant us. tins fay..Our daily manna, without which he roamsThrough this rough desert retrograde, who mos! To.is ro :-.fvnu:e his steas. As we ::, ea:hPardon the uu iune us* .:.:ul:u aB eni^n, and of our merit take no countGains: the nu mverserv. prtve thou no:Our virtue, easiiy subdued: bu: freeFrom his mo.teme:it.s. ana defeat his wile*.This last petition, dearest Lord ! is madeN: t for ourselves; since that were needless now; Thus for themselves and us :::: a : inn ::iur .er.~j The first four lines are bor U:-j■-.. . vr.^.f.r^ :hr Ihriu ?h-;:-r(Xantes, which some have doubted:c/s Chorion it is ascribed to An
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27-G5 PURGATORY, Canto XI. 279 We sometimes feel in dreams; all, sore beset.Bat with unequal anguish ; wearied all;Round the first circuit; purging as they goThe worlds gross darkness off. In our behoofIf there vows still be offerd, what can hereFor them be vowd and done by such, whose willsHave root of goodness in them I1 Well beseemsThat we should help them wash away the stainsThey carried hence ; that so, made pure and light,They may spring upward to the starry spheres. Ah ! so may mercy-temperd justice ridYour burdens speedily ; that ye have powerTo stretch your wing, which een to your desireShall lift you; as ye show us on which handToward the ladder leads the shortest way.And if there be more passages than one,Instruct us of that easiest to ascend:For this man, who comes with me, and bears yetThe charge of fleshly raiment Adam left him,Despite his better will, but slowly mounts.From whom the answer came unto these words,Which my guide spake, appeard not; but twas said Along the

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