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Название: Innocence Once Lost - Religious Classics Collection

Автор: Джон Мильтон

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СКАЧАТЬ every sense, even to the sight.

      Thence is it that we speak, and thence we laugh;

       Thence is it that we form the tears and sighs,

       That on the mountain thou mayhap hast heard.

      According as impress us our desires

       And other affections, so the shade is shaped,

       And this is cause of what thou wonderest at."

      And now unto the last of all the circles

       Had we arrived, and to the right hand turned,

       And were attentive to another care.

      There the embankment shoots forth flames of fire,

       And upward doth the cornice breathe a blast

       That drives them back, and from itself sequesters.

      Hence we must needs go on the open side,

       And one by one; and I did fear the fire

       On this side, and on that the falling down.

      My Leader said: "Along this place one ought

       To keep upon the eyes a tightened rein,

       Seeing that one so easily might err."

      "Summae Deus clementiae," in the bosom

       Of the great burning chanted then I heard,

       Which made me no less eager to turn round;

      And spirits saw I walking through the flame;

       Wherefore I looked, to my own steps and theirs

       Apportioning my sight from time to time.

      After the close which to that hymn is made,

       Aloud they shouted, "Virum non cognosco;"

       Then recommenced the hymn with voices low.

      This also ended, cried they: "To the wood

       Diana ran, and drove forth Helice

       Therefrom, who had of Venus felt the poison."

      Then to their song returned they; then the wives

       They shouted, and the husbands who were chaste.

       As virtue and the marriage vow imposes.

      And I believe that them this mode suffices,

       For all the time the fire is burning them;

       With such care is it needful, and such food,

      That the last wound of all should be closed up.

      XXVI. Sodomites. Guido Guinicelli and Arnaldo Daniello.

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      While on the brink thus one before the other

       We went upon our way, oft the good Master

       Said: "Take thou heed! suffice it that I warn thee."

      On the right shoulder smote me now the sun,

       That, raying out, already the whole west

       Changed from its azure aspect into white.

      And with my shadow did I make the flame

       Appear more red; and even to such a sign

       Shades saw I many, as they went, give heed.

      This was the cause that gave them a beginning

       To speak of me; and to themselves began they

       To say: "That seems not a factitious body!"

      Then towards me, as far as they could come,

       Came certain of them, always with regard

       Not to step forth where they would not be burned.

      "O thou who goest, not from being slower

       But reverent perhaps, behind the others,

       Answer me, who in thirst and fire am burning.

      Nor to me only is thine answer needful;

       For all of these have greater thirst for it

       Than for cold water Ethiop or Indian.

      Tell us how is it that thou makest thyself

       A wall unto the sun, as if thou hadst not

       Entered as yet into the net of death."

      Thus one of them addressed me, and I straight

       Should have revealed myself, were I not bent

       On other novelty that then appeared.

      For through the middle of the burning road

       There came a people face to face with these,

       Which held me in suspense with gazing at them.

      There see I hastening upon either side

       Each of the shades, and kissing one another

       Without a pause, content with brief salute.

      Thus in the middle of their brown battalions

       Muzzle to muzzle one ant meets another

       Perchance to spy their journey or their fortune.

      No sooner is the friendly greeting ended,

       Or ever the first footstep passes onward,

       Each one endeavours to outcry the other;

      The new-come people: "Sodom and Gomorrah!"

       The rest: "Into the cow Pasiphae enters,

       So that the bull unto her lust may run!"

      Then as the cranes, that to Riphaean mountains

       Might fly in part, and part towards the sands,

       These of the frost, those of the sun avoidant,

      One folk is going, and the other coming,

       And weeping they return to their first songs,

       And to the cry that most befitteth them;

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