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

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CANTO XXX

       Soon as the polar light, which never knows

       Setting nor rising, nor the shadowy veil

       Of other cloud than sin, fair ornament

       Of the first heav'n, to duty each one there

       Safely convoying, as that lower doth

       The steersman to his port, stood firmly fix'd;

       Forthwith the saintly tribe, who in the van

       Between the Gryphon and its radiance came,

       Did turn them to the car, as to their rest:

       And one, as if commission'd from above,

       In holy chant thrice shorted forth aloud:

       "Come, spouse, from Libanus!" and all the rest

       Took up the song—At the last audit so

       The blest shall rise, from forth his cavern each

       Uplifting lightly his new-vested flesh,

       As, on the sacred litter, at the voice

       Authoritative of that elder, sprang

       A hundred ministers and messengers

       Of life eternal. "Blessed thou! who com'st!"

       And, "O," they cried, "from full hands scatter ye

       Unwith'ring lilies;" and, so saying, cast

       Flowers over head and round them on all sides.