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Название: Innocence Once Lost - Religious Classics Collection

Автор: Джон Мильтон

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       Shall have departed; but not therefore pure

       Will testimony of them e'er remain.

      O Ugolin de' Fantoli, secure

       Thy name is, since no longer is awaited

       One who, degenerating, can obscure it!

      But go now, Tuscan, for it now delights me

       To weep far better than it does to speak,

       So much has our discourse my mind distressed."

      We were aware that those beloved souls

       Heard us depart; therefore, by keeping silent,

       They made us of our pathway confident.

      When we became alone by going onward,

       Thunder, when it doth cleave the air, appeared

       A voice, that counter to us came, exclaiming:

      "Shall slay me whosoever findeth me!"

       And fled as the reverberation dies

       If suddenly the cloud asunder bursts.

      As soon as hearing had a truce from this,

       Behold another, with so great a crash,

       That it resembled thunderings following fast:

      "I am Aglaurus, who became a stone!"

       And then, to press myself close to the Poet,

       I backward, and not forward, took a step.

      Already on all sides the air was quiet;

       And said he to me: "That was the hard curb

       That ought to hold a man within his bounds;

      But you take in the bait so that the hook

       Of the old Adversary draws you to him,

       And hence availeth little curb or call.

      The heavens are calling you, and wheel around you,

       Displaying to you their eternal beauties,

       And still your eye is looking on the ground;

      Whence He, who all discerns, chastises you."

      XV. The Third Circle: The Irascible. Dante's Visions. The Smoke.

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      As much as 'twixt the close of the third hour

       And dawn of day appeareth of that sphere

       Which aye in fashion of a child is playing,

      So much it now appeared, towards the night,

       Was of his course remaining to the sun;

       There it was evening, and 'twas midnight here;

      And the rays smote the middle of our faces,

       Because by us the mount was so encircled,

       That straight towards the west we now were going

      When I perceived my forehead overpowered

       Beneath the splendour far more than at first,

       And stupor were to me the things unknown,

      Whereat towards the summit of my brow

       I raised my hands, and made myself the visor

       Which the excessive glare diminishes.

      As when from off the water, or a mirror,

       The sunbeam leaps unto the opposite side,

       Ascending upward in the selfsame measure

      That it descends, and deviates as far

       From falling of a stone in line direct,

       (As demonstrate experiment and art,)

      So it appeared to me that by a light

       Refracted there before me I was smitten;

       On which account my sight was swift to flee.

      "What is that, Father sweet, from which I cannot

       So fully screen my sight that it avail me,"

       Said I, "and seems towards us to be moving?"

      "Marvel thou not, if dazzle thee as yet

       The family of heaven," he answered me;

       "An angel 'tis, who comes to invite us upward.

      Soon will it be, that to behold these things

       Shall not be grievous, but delightful to thee

       As much as nature fashioned thee to feel."

      When we had reached the Angel benedight,

       With joyful voice he said: "Here enter in

       To stairway far less steep than are the others."

      We mounting were, already thence departed,

       And "Beati misericordes" was

       Behind us sung, "Rejoice, thou that o'ercomest!"

      My Master and myself, we two alone

       Were going upward, and I thought, in going,

       Some profit to acquire from words of his;

      And I to him directed me, thus asking:

       "What did the spirit of Romagna mean,

       Mentioning interdict and partnership?"

      Whence he to me: "Of his own greatest failing

       He knows the harm; and therefore wonder not

       If he reprove us, that we less may rue it.

      Because are thither pointed your desires

       Where by companionship each share is lessened,

       Envy doth ply the bellows to your sighs.

      But if the love of the supernal sphere

       Should upwardly direct your aspiration,

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