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paradiso-第16部分
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A syllogism is; which proved it to me
With such acuteness; that; compared therewith;
All demonstration seems to me obtuse。〃
And then I heard: 〃The ancient and the new
Postulates; that to thee are so conclusive;
Why dost thou take them for the word divine?〃
And I: 〃The proofs; which show the truth to me;
Are the works subsequent; whereunto Nature
Ne'er heated iron yet; nor anvil beat。〃
'Twas answered me: 〃Say; who assureth thee
That those works ever were? the thing itself
That must be proved; nought else to thee affirms it。〃
〃Were the world to Christianity converted;〃
I said; 〃withouten miracles; this one
Is such; the rest are not its hundredth part;
Because that poor and fasting thou didst enter
Into the field to sow there the good plant;
Which was a vine and has become a thorn!〃
This being finished; the high; holy Court
Resounded through the spheres; 〃One God we praise!〃
In melody that there above is chanted。
And then that Baron; who from branch to branch;
Examining; had thus conducted me;
Till the extremest leaves we were approaching;
Again began: 〃The Grace that dallying
Plays with thine intellect thy mouth has opened;
Up to this point; as it should opened be;
So that I do approve what forth emerged;
But now thou must express what thou believest;
And whence to thy belief it was presented。〃
〃O holy father; spirit who beholdest
What thou believedst so that thou o'ercamest;
Towards the sepulchre; more youthful feet;〃
Began I; 〃thou dost wish me in this place
The form to manifest of my prompt belief;
And likewise thou the cause thereof demandest。
And I respond: In one God I believe;
Sole and eterne; who moveth all the heavens
With love and with desire; himself unmoved;
And of such faith not only have I proofs
Physical and metaphysical; but gives them
Likewise the truth that from this place rains down
Through Moses; through the Prophets and the Psalms;
Through the Evangel; and through you; who wrote
After the fiery Spirit sanctified you;
In Persons three eterne believe; and these
One essence I believe; so one and trine
They bear conjunction both with 'sunt' and 'est。'
With the profound condition and divine
Which now I touch upon; doth stamp my mind
Ofttimes the doctrine evangelical。
This the beginning is; this is the spark
Which afterwards dilates to vivid flame;
And; like a star in heaven; is sparkling in me。〃
Even as a lord who hears what pleaseth him
His servant straight embraces; gratulating
For the good news as soon as he is silent;
So; giving me its benediction; singing;
Three times encircled me; when I was silent;
The apostolic light; at whose command
I spoken had; in speaking I so pleased him。
Paradiso: Canto XXV
If e'er it happen that the Poem Sacred;
To which both heaven and earth have set their hand;
So that it many a year hath made me lean;
O'ercome the cruelty that bars me out
From the fair sheepfold; where a lamb I slumbered;
An enemy to the wolves that war upon it;
With other voice forthwith; with other fleece
Poet will I return; and at my font
Baptismal will I take the laurel crown;
Because into the Faith that maketh known
All souls to God there entered I; and then
Peter for her sake thus my brow encircled。
Thereafterward towards us moved a light
Out of that band whence issued the first…fruits
Which of his vicars Christ behind him left;
And then my Lady; full of ecstasy;
Said unto me: 〃Look; look! behold the Baron
For whom below Galicia is frequented。〃
In the same way as; when a dove alights
Near his companion; both of them pour forth;
Circling about and murmuring; their affection;
So one beheld I by the other grand
Prince glorified to be with welcome greeted;
Lauding the food that there above is eaten。
But when their gratulations were complete;
Silently 'coram me' each one stood still;
So incandescent it o'ercame my sight。
Smiling thereafterwards; said Beatrice:
〃Illustrious life; by whom the benefactions
Of our Basilica have been described;
Make Hope resound within this altitude;
Thou knowest as oft thou dost personify it
As Jesus to the three gave greater clearness。〃
〃Lift up thy head; and make thyself assured;
For what comes hither from the mortal world
Must needs be ripened in our radiance。〃
This comfort came to me from the second fire;
Wherefore mine eyes I lifted to the hills;
Which bent them down before with too great weight。
〃Since; through his grace; our Emperor wills that thou
Shouldst find thee face to face; before thy death;
In the most secret chamber; with his Counts;
So that; the truth beholden of this court;
Hope; which below there rightfully enamours;
Thereby thou strengthen in thyself and others;
Say what it is; and how is flowering with it
Thy mind; and say from whence it came to thee。〃
Thus did the second light again continue。
And the Compassionate; who piloted
The plumage of my wings in such high flight;
Did in reply anticipate me thus:
〃No child whatever the Church Militant
Of greater hope possesses; as is written
In that Sun which irradiates all our band;
Therefore it is conceded him from Egypt
To come into Jerusalem to see;
Or ever yet his warfare be completed。
The two remaining points; that not for knowledge
Have been demanded; but that he report
How much this virtue unto thee is pleasing;
To him I leave; for hard he will not find them;
Nor of self…praise; and let him answer them;
And may the grace of God in this assist him!〃
As a disciple; who his teacher follows;
Ready and willing; where he is expert;
That his proficiency may be displayed;
〃Hope;〃 said I; 〃is the certain expectation
Of future glory; which is the effect
Of grace divine and merit precedent。
From many stars this light comes unto me;
But he instilled it first into my heart
Who was chief singer unto the chief captain。
'Sperent in te;' in the high Theody
He sayeth; 'those who know thy name;' and who
Knoweth it not; if he my faith possess?
Thou didst instil me; then; with his instilling
In the Epistle; so that I am full;
And upon others rain again your rain。〃
While I was speaking; in the living bosom
Of that combustion quivered an effulgence;
Sudden and frequent; in the guise of lightning;
Then breathed: 〃The love wherewith I am inflamed
Towards the virtue still which followed me
Unto the palm and issue of the field;
Wills that I breathe to thee that thou delight
In her; and grateful to me is thy telling
Whatever things Hope promises to thee。〃
And I: 〃The ancient Scriptures and the new
The mark establish; and this shows it me;
Of all the souls whom God hath made his friends。
Isaiah saith; that each one garmented
In his own land shall be with twofold garments;
And his own land is this delightful life。
Thy brother; too; far more explicitly;
There where he treateth of the robes of white;
This revelation manifests to us。〃
And first; and near the ending of these words;
〃Sperent in te〃 from over us was heard;
To which responsive answered all the carols。
Thereafterward a light among them brightened;
So that; if Cancer one such crystal had;
Winter would have a month of one sole day。
And as uprises; goes; and enters the dance
A winsome maiden; only to do honour
To the new bride; and not from any failing;
Even thus did I behold the brightened splendour
Approach the two; who in a wheel revolved
As was beseeming to their ardent love。
Into the song and music there it entered;
And fixed on them my Lady kept her look;
Even as a bride silent and motionless。
〃This is the one who lay upon the breast
Of him our Pelican; and this is he
To the great office from the cross elected。〃
My Lady thus; but therefore none the more
Did move her sight from its attentive gaze
Before or afterward these words of hers。
Even as a man who gazes; and endeavours
To see the eclipsing of the sun a little;
And who; by seeing; sightless doth become;
So I became before that latest fire;
While it was said; 〃Why dost thou daze thyself
To see a thing which here hath no existence?
Earth in the earth my body is; and shall be
With all the others there; until our number
With the eternal proposition tallies。
With the two garments in the blessed cloister
Are the two lights alone that have ascended:
And this shalt thou take back into your world。〃
And at this utterance the flaming circle
Grew quiet; with the dulcet intermingling
Of sound that by the trinal breath was made;
As to escape from danger or fatigue
The oars that erst were in the water beaten
Are all suspended at a whistle's sound。
Ah; how much in my mind was I disturbed;
When I turned round to look on Beatrice;
That her I could not see; although I was
Close at her side and in the Happy World!
Paradiso: Canto XXVI
While I was doubting for my vision quenched;
Out of the flame refulgent that had quenched it
Issued a breathing; that attentive made me;
Saying: 〃While thou recoverest the sense
Of seeing which in me thou hast consumed;
'Tis well that speaking thou shouldst compensate it。
Begin then; and declare to what thy soul
Is aimed; and count it for a certainty;
Sight is in thee bewildered and not dead;
Because the Lady; who through this divine
Region conducteth thee; has in her look
The power the hand of Ananias had。〃
I said: 〃As pleaseth her; or soon or late
Let the cure come to eyes that portals were
When she with fire I ever burn with entered。
The Good; that gives contentment to this Court;
The Alpha and Omega is of all
The writing that love reads me low or loud。〃
The selfsame voice; that taken had from me
The terror of the sudden dazzlement;
To speak still farther put it in my thought;
And said: 〃In verity with finer sieve
Behoveth thee to sift; thee it behoveth
To say who aimed thy bow at such a target。〃
And I: 〃By philosophic arguments;
And by authori
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