THE DIVINE COMEDY: Inferno, Purgatorio & Paradiso (3 Classic Translations in One Edition). Dante Alighieri

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       She spake; and I replied: "I know not how

       To reconcile this wave and rustling sound

       Of forest leaves, with what I late have heard

       Of opposite report." She answering thus:

       "I will unfold the cause, whence that proceeds,

       Which makes thee wonder; and so purge the cloud

       That hath enwraps thee. The First Good, whose joy

       Is only in himself, created man

       For happiness, and gave this goodly place,

       His pledge and earnest of eternal peace.

       Favour'd thus highly, through his own defect

       He fell, and here made short sojourn; he fell,

       And, for the bitterness of sorrow, chang'd

       Laughter unblam'd and ever-new delight.

       That vapours none, exhal'd from earth beneath,

       Or from the waters (which, wherever heat

       Attracts them, follow), might ascend thus far

       To vex man's peaceful state, this mountain rose

       So high toward the heav'n, nor fears the rage

       Of elements contending, from that part

       Exempted, where the gate his limit bars.

       Because the circumambient air throughout

       With its first impulse circles still, unless

       Aught interpose to cheek or thwart its course;

       Upon the summit, which on every side

       To visitation of th' impassive air

       Is open, doth that motion strike, and makes

       Beneath its sway th' umbrageous wood resound:

       And in the shaken plant such power resides,

       That it impregnates with its efficacy

       The voyaging breeze, upon whose subtle plume

       That wafted flies abroad; and th' other land

       Receiving (as 't is worthy СКАЧАТЬ