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paradiso-第2部分
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There needs must be a limit; beyond which
Its contrary prevents the further passing;
And thence the foreign radiance is reflected;
Even as a colour cometh back from glass;
The which behind itself concealeth lead。
Now thou wilt say the sunbeam shows itself
More dimly there than in the other parts;
By being there reflected farther back。
From this reply experiment will free thee
If e'er thou try it; which is wont to be
The fountain to the rivers of your arts。
Three mirrors shalt thou take; and two remove
Alike from thee; the other more remote
Between the former two shall meet thine eyes。
Turned towards these; cause that behind thy back
Be placed a light; illuming the three mirrors
And coming back to thee by all reflected。
Though in its quantity be not so ample
The image most remote; there shalt thou see
How it perforce is equally resplendent。
Now; as beneath the touches of warm rays
Naked the subject of the snow remains
Both of its former colour and its cold;
Thee thus remaining in thy intellect;
Will I inform with such a living light;
That it shall tremble in its aspect to thee。
Within the heaven of the divine repose
Revolves a body; in whose virtue lies
The being of whatever it contains。
The following heaven; that has so many eyes;
Divides this being by essences diverse;
Distinguished from it; and by it contained。
The other spheres; by various differences;
All the distinctions which they have within them
Dispose unto their ends and their effects。
Thus do these organs of the world proceed;
As thou perceivest now; from grade to grade;
Since from above they take; and act beneath。
Observe me well; how through this place I come
Unto the truth thou wishest; that hereafter
Thou mayst alone know how to keep the ford
The power and motion of the holy spheres;
As from the artisan the hammer's craft;
Forth from the blessed motors must proceed。
The heaven; which lights so manifold make fair;
From the Intelligence profound; which turns it;
The image takes; and makes of it a seal。
And even as the soul within your dust
Through members different and accommodated
To faculties diverse expands itself;
So likewise this Intelligence diffuses
Its virtue multiplied among the stars。
Itself revolving on its unity。
Virtue diverse doth a diverse alloyage
Make with the precious body that it quickens;
In which; as life in you; it is combined。
From the glad nature whence it is derived;
The mingled virtue through the body shines;
Even as gladness through the living pupil。
From this proceeds whate'er from light to light
Appeareth different; not from dense and rare:
This is the formal principle that produces;
According to its goodness; dark and bright。〃
Paradiso: Canto III
That Sun; which erst with love my bosom warmed;
Of beauteous truth had unto me discovered;
By proving and reproving; the sweet aspect。
And; that I might confess myself convinced
And confident; so far as was befitting;
I lifted more erect my head to speak。
But there appeared a vision; which withdrew me
So close to it; in order to be seen;
That my confession I remembered not。
Such as through polished and transparent glass;
Or waters crystalline and undisturbed;
But not so deep as that their bed be lost;
Come back again the outlines of our faces
So feeble; that a pearl on forehead white
Comes not less speedily unto our eyes;
Such saw I many faces prompt to speak;
So that I ran in error opposite
To that which kindled love 'twixt man and fountain。
As soon as I became aware of them;
Esteeming them as mirrored semblances;
To see of whom they were; mine eyes I turned;
And nothing saw; and once more turned them forward
Direct into the light of my sweet Guide;
Who smiling kindled in her holy eyes。
〃Marvel thou not;〃 she said to me; 〃because
I smile at this thy puerile conceit;
Since on the truth it trusts not yet its foot;
But turns thee; as 'tis wont; on emptiness。
True substances are these which thou beholdest;
Here relegate for breaking of some vow。
Therefore speak with them; listen and believe;
For the true light; which giveth peace to them;
Permits them not to turn from it their feet。〃
And I unto the shade that seemed most wishful
To speak directed me; and I began;
As one whom too great eagerness bewilders:
〃O well…created spirit; who in the rays
Of life eternal dost the sweetness taste
Which being untasted ne'er is comprehended;
Grateful 'twill be to me; if thou content me
Both with thy name and with your destiny。〃
Whereat she promptly and with laughing eyes:
〃Our charity doth never shut the doors
Against a just desire; except as one
Who wills that all her court be like herself。
I was a virgin sister in the world;
And if thy mind doth contemplate me well;
The being more fair will not conceal me from thee;
But thou shalt recognise I am Piccarda;
Who; stationed here among these other blessed;
Myself am blessed in the slowest sphere。
All our affections; that alone inflamed
Are in the pleasure of the Holy Ghost;
Rejoice at being of his order formed;
And this allotment; which appears so low;
Therefore is given us; because our vows
Have been neglected and in some part void。〃
Whence I to her: 〃In your miraculous aspects
There shines I know not what of the divine;
Which doth transform you from our first conceptions。
Therefore I was not swift in my remembrance;
But what thou tellest me now aids me so;
That the refiguring is easier to me。
But tell me; ye who in this place are happy;
Are you desirous of a higher place;
To see more or to make yourselves more friends?〃
First with those other shades she smiled a little;
Thereafter answered me so full of gladness;
She seemed to burn in the first fire of love:
〃Brother; our will is quieted by virtue
Of charity; that makes us wish alone
For what we have; nor gives us thirst for more。
If to be more exalted we aspired;
Discordant would our aspirations be
Unto the will of Him who here secludes us;
Which thou shalt see finds no place in these circles;
If being in charity is needful here;
And if thou lookest well into its nature;
Nay; 'tis essential to this blest existence
To keep itself within the will divine;
Whereby our very wishes are made one;
So that; as we are station above station
Throughout this realm; to all the realm 'tis pleasing;
As to the King; who makes his will our will。
And his will is our peace; this is the sea
To which is moving onward whatsoever
It doth create; and all that nature makes。〃
Then it was clear to me how everywhere
In heaven is Paradise; although the grace
Of good supreme there rain not in one measure。
But as it comes to pass; if one food sates;
And for another still remains the longing;
We ask for this; and that decline with thanks;
E'en thus did I; with gesture and with word;
To learn from her what was the web wherein
She did not ply the shuttle to the end。
〃A perfect life and merit high in…heaven
A lady o'er us;〃 said she; 〃by whose rule
Down in your world they vest and veil themselves;
That until death they may both watch and sleep
Beside that Spouse who every vow accepts
Which charity conformeth to his pleasure。
To follow her; in girlhood from the world
I fled; and in her habit shut myself;
And pledged me to the pathway of her sect。
Then men accustomed unto evil more
Than unto good; from the sweet cloister tore me;
God knows what afterward my life became。
This other splendour; which to thee reveals
Itself on my right side; and is enkindled
With all the illumination of our sphere;
What of myself I say applies to her;
A nun was she; and likewise from her head
Was ta'en the shadow of the sacred wimple。
But when she too was to the world returned
Against her wishes and against good usage;
Of the heart's veil she never was divested。
Of great Costanza this is the effulgence;
Who from the second wind of Suabia
Brought forth the third and latest puissance。〃
Thus unto me she spake; and then began
〃Ave Maria〃 singing; and in singing
Vanished; as through deep water something heavy。
My sight; that followed her as long a time
As it was possible; when it had lost her
Turned round unto the mark of more desire;
And wholly unto Beatrice reverted;
But she such lightnings flashed into mine eyes;
That at the first my sight endured it not;
And this in questioning more backward made me。
Paradiso: Canto IV
Between two viands; equally removed
And tempting; a free man would die of hunger
Ere either he could bring unto his teeth。
So would a lamb between the ravenings
Of two fierce wolves stand fearing both alike;
And so would stand a dog between two does。
Hence; if I held my peace; myself I blame not;
Impelled in equal measure by my doubts;
Since it must be so; nor do I commend。
I held my peace; but my desire was painted
Upon my face; and questioning with that
More fervent far than by articulate speech。
Beatrice did as Daniel had done
Relieving Nebuchadnezzar from the wrath
Which rendered him unjustly merciless;
And said: 〃Well see I how attracteth thee
One and the other wish; so that thy care
Binds itself so that forth it does not breathe。
Thou arguest; if good will be permanent;
The violence of others; for what reason
Doth it decrease the measure of my merit?
Again for doubting furnish thee occasion
Souls seeming to return unto the stars;
According to the sentiment of Plato。
These are the questions which upon thy wish
Are thrusting equally; and therefore first
Will I treat that which hath the most of gall。
He of the Seraphim most absorbed in God;
Moses; and Samuel; and whichever John
Thou mayst select; I say; and even Mary;
Have not in any other heaven their seats;
Than have those spirits that just appeared to thee;
Nor of existence more or fewer years;
But all make beautiful the prima
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