Chapter 27

Purgatorio, XXVIII–XXIXEAGER THAT HEAVENLY FOREST TO SURVEY, ...... I LEFT THE ROCKY BOUND,AND THERE APPEARED TO ME ...A LADY ALL ALONE: WHO ROVED ABOUTSINGING, AS SHE SELECTED FLOWER FROM FLOWER,WITH WHICH HER PATHWAY PAINTED WAS THROUGHOUT ...LIKE TO A LADY TURNING IN THE DANCE,FOOT BEFORE FOOT FROM EARTH SO SLIGHTLY MOVED,THAT SCARCE PERCEPTIBLE IS HER ADVANCE;—... TO ME SHE TURNED AROUND, ...“THE STREAMS THOU SEE’ST SPRING NOT FROM EARTHLY VEIN, ...BUT ISSUE FROM A NEVER-FAILING SOURCE,REPLENISHED BY THE WILL OF GOD ...ON THIS HAND, ABLE—SUCH THE POWER ASSIGNED—TO TAKE AWAY THE MEMORY OF SIN;ON THAT—TO CALL EACH VIRTUOUS DEED TO MIND:THIS, LETHE NAMED—THAT EUNÖE.” ...AS THOUGH BY LOVE INSPIRED—HER HEAVENLY LAYTO ITS LAST CADENCE SANG THAT LADY FAIR:“BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE SINS ARE WASHED AWAY.”

Purgatorio, XXVIII–XXIX

EAGER THAT HEAVENLY FOREST TO SURVEY, ...... I LEFT THE ROCKY BOUND,AND THERE APPEARED TO ME ...A LADY ALL ALONE: WHO ROVED ABOUTSINGING, AS SHE SELECTED FLOWER FROM FLOWER,WITH WHICH HER PATHWAY PAINTED WAS THROUGHOUT ...LIKE TO A LADY TURNING IN THE DANCE,FOOT BEFORE FOOT FROM EARTH SO SLIGHTLY MOVED,THAT SCARCE PERCEPTIBLE IS HER ADVANCE;—... TO ME SHE TURNED AROUND, ...“THE STREAMS THOU SEE’ST SPRING NOT FROM EARTHLY VEIN, ...BUT ISSUE FROM A NEVER-FAILING SOURCE,REPLENISHED BY THE WILL OF GOD ...ON THIS HAND, ABLE—SUCH THE POWER ASSIGNED—TO TAKE AWAY THE MEMORY OF SIN;ON THAT—TO CALL EACH VIRTUOUS DEED TO MIND:THIS, LETHE NAMED—THAT EUNÖE.” ...AS THOUGH BY LOVE INSPIRED—HER HEAVENLY LAYTO ITS LAST CADENCE SANG THAT LADY FAIR:“BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE SINS ARE WASHED AWAY.”

EAGER THAT HEAVENLY FOREST TO SURVEY, ...... I LEFT THE ROCKY BOUND,AND THERE APPEARED TO ME ...A LADY ALL ALONE: WHO ROVED ABOUTSINGING, AS SHE SELECTED FLOWER FROM FLOWER,WITH WHICH HER PATHWAY PAINTED WAS THROUGHOUT ...LIKE TO A LADY TURNING IN THE DANCE,FOOT BEFORE FOOT FROM EARTH SO SLIGHTLY MOVED,THAT SCARCE PERCEPTIBLE IS HER ADVANCE;—... TO ME SHE TURNED AROUND, ...“THE STREAMS THOU SEE’ST SPRING NOT FROM EARTHLY VEIN, ...BUT ISSUE FROM A NEVER-FAILING SOURCE,REPLENISHED BY THE WILL OF GOD ...ON THIS HAND, ABLE—SUCH THE POWER ASSIGNED—TO TAKE AWAY THE MEMORY OF SIN;ON THAT—TO CALL EACH VIRTUOUS DEED TO MIND:THIS, LETHE NAMED—THAT EUNÖE.” ...AS THOUGH BY LOVE INSPIRED—HER HEAVENLY LAYTO ITS LAST CADENCE SANG THAT LADY FAIR:“BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE SINS ARE WASHED AWAY.”

EAGER THAT HEAVENLY FOREST TO SURVEY, ...... I LEFT THE ROCKY BOUND,AND THERE APPEARED TO ME ...A LADY ALL ALONE: WHO ROVED ABOUTSINGING, AS SHE SELECTED FLOWER FROM FLOWER,WITH WHICH HER PATHWAY PAINTED WAS THROUGHOUT ...LIKE TO A LADY TURNING IN THE DANCE,FOOT BEFORE FOOT FROM EARTH SO SLIGHTLY MOVED,THAT SCARCE PERCEPTIBLE IS HER ADVANCE;—... TO ME SHE TURNED AROUND, ...“THE STREAMS THOU SEE’ST SPRING NOT FROM EARTHLY VEIN, ...BUT ISSUE FROM A NEVER-FAILING SOURCE,REPLENISHED BY THE WILL OF GOD ...ON THIS HAND, ABLE—SUCH THE POWER ASSIGNED—TO TAKE AWAY THE MEMORY OF SIN;ON THAT—TO CALL EACH VIRTUOUS DEED TO MIND:THIS, LETHE NAMED—THAT EUNÖE.” ...AS THOUGH BY LOVE INSPIRED—HER HEAVENLY LAYTO ITS LAST CADENCE SANG THAT LADY FAIR:“BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE SINS ARE WASHED AWAY.”

EAGER THAT HEAVENLY FOREST TO SURVEY, ...

... I LEFT THE ROCKY BOUND,

AND THERE APPEARED TO ME ...

A LADY ALL ALONE: WHO ROVED ABOUT

SINGING, AS SHE SELECTED FLOWER FROM FLOWER,

WITH WHICH HER PATHWAY PAINTED WAS THROUGHOUT ...

LIKE TO A LADY TURNING IN THE DANCE,

FOOT BEFORE FOOT FROM EARTH SO SLIGHTLY MOVED,

THAT SCARCE PERCEPTIBLE IS HER ADVANCE;—

... TO ME SHE TURNED AROUND, ...

“THE STREAMS THOU SEE’ST SPRING NOT FROM EARTHLY VEIN, ...

BUT ISSUE FROM A NEVER-FAILING SOURCE,

REPLENISHED BY THE WILL OF GOD ...

ON THIS HAND, ABLE—SUCH THE POWER ASSIGNED—

TO TAKE AWAY THE MEMORY OF SIN;

ON THAT—TO CALL EACH VIRTUOUS DEED TO MIND:

THIS, LETHE NAMED—THAT EUNÖE.” ...

AS THOUGH BY LOVE INSPIRED—HER HEAVENLY LAY

TO ITS LAST CADENCE SANG THAT LADY FAIR:

“BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE SINS ARE WASHED AWAY.”

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