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the divine comedy(三)(朗费罗译但丁之神曲 )-第6部分

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     Now unto what is said direct thy sight; This nature when united to its 

Maker; Such as created; was sincere and good; 

     But   by   itself  alone  was   banished    forth  From    Paradise;   because    it 

turned aside Out of the way of truth and of its life。 

     Therefore   the   penalty   the   cross   held   out;   If   measured   by   the   nature 

thus assumed; None ever yet with so great justice stung; 

     And none was ever of so great injustice; Considering who the Person 

was that suffered; Within whom such a nature was contracted。 

     From one act therefore issued things diverse; To God and to the Jews 

one death was pleasing; Earth trembled at it and the Heaven was opened。 



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     It should no longer now seem difficult To thee; when it is said that a 

just vengeance By a just court was afterward avenged。 

     But   now   do   I   behold   thy   mind   entangled   From   thought   to   thought 

within a knot; from which With great desire it waits to free itself。 

     Thou sayest; 'Well discern I what I hear; But it is hidden from me why 

God willed For our redemption only this one mode。' 

     Buried   remaineth;   brother;   this   decree   Unto   the   eyes   of   every   one 

whose nature Is in the flame of love not yet adult。 

     Verily; inasmuch as at this mark One gazes long and little is discerned; 

Wherefore this mode was worthiest will I say。 

     Goodness   Divine;   which   from   itself   doth   spurn All   envy;   burning   in 

itself so sparkles That the eternal beauties it unfolds。 

     Whate'er from this immediately distils Has afterwards no end; for ne'er 

removed Is its impression when it sets its seal。 

     Whate'er from this immediately rains down Is wholly free; because it 

is not subject Unto the influences of novel things。 

     The more conformed thereto; the more it pleases; For the blest ardour 

that irradiates all things In that most like itself is most vivacious。 

     With all of these things has advantaged been The human creature; and 

if one be wanting; From his nobility he needs must fall。 

     'Tis sin alone which doth disfranchise him; And render him unlike the 

Good Supreme; So that he little with its light is blanched; 

     And     to   his  dignity    no   more    returns;   Unless     he   fill  up  where 

transgression empties With righteous pains for criminal delights。 

     Your   nature   when   it   sinned   so   utterly   In   its   own   seed;   out   of   these 

dignities Even as out of Paradise was driven; 

     Nor could itself recover; if thou notest With nicest subtilty; by any way; 

Except by passing one of these two fords: 

     Either that God through clemency alone Had pardon granted; or that 

man himself Had satisfaction for his folly made。 

     Fix now thine eye deep into the abyss Of the eternal counsel; to my 

speech As far as may be fastened steadfastly! 

     Man in his limitations had not power To satisfy; not having power to 

sink In his humility obeying then; 



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     Far as he disobeying thought to rise; And for this reason man has been 

from power Of satisfying by himself excluded。 

     Therefore   it   God   behoved   in   his   own   ways   Man   to   restore   unto   his 

perfect life; I say in one; or else in both of them。 

     But since the action of the doer is So much more grateful; as it more 

presents The goodness of the heart from which it issues; 

     Goodness Divine; that doth imprint the world; Has been contented to 

proceed by each And all its ways to lift you up again; 

     Nor    'twixt   the  first  day   and   the   final  night   Such    high   and   such 

magnificent proceeding By one or by the other was or shall be; 

     For   God   more   bounteous   was   himself   to   give   To   make   man   able   to 

uplift himself; Than if he only of himself had pardoned; 

     And all the other modes were insufficient For justice; were it not the 

Son of God Himself had humbled to become incarnate。 

     Now; to fill fully each desire of thine; Return I to elucidate one place; 

In order that thou there mayst see as I do。 

     Thou sayst: 'I see the air; I see the fire; The water; and the earth; and all 

their mixtures Come to corruption; and short while endure; 

     And     these   things   notwithstanding      were    created;'   Therefore     if  that 

which     I  have   said   were    true;  They    should    have   been    secure   against 

corruption。 

     The Angels;   brother;   and   the   land   sincere   In   which   thou   art;   created 

may be called Just as they are in their entire existence; 

     But   all   the   elements   which   thou   hast   named;   And   all   those   things 

which out of them are made; By a created virtue are informed。 

     Created   was   the  matter   which they  have;   Created   was   the   informing 

influence Within these stars that round about them go。 

     The soul of every brute and of the plants By its potential temperament 

attracts The ray and motion of the holy lights; 

     But   your   own   life   immediately   inspires   Supreme   Beneficence;   and 

enamours it So with herself; it evermore desires her。 

     And thou from this mayst argue furthermore Your resurrection; if thou 

think again How human flesh was fashioned at that time 

     When the first parents both of them were made。〃 



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                    Paradiso: Canto VIII 



      The world used in its peril to believe That the fair Cypria delirious 

love Rayed out; in the third epicycle turning; 

    Wherefore not only unto her paid honour Of sacrifices and of votive 

cry The ancient nations in the ancient error; 

    But both Dione honoured they and Cupid; That as her mother; this one 

as her son; And said that he had sat in Dido's lap; 

    And they from her; whence I beginning take; Took the denomination 

of the star That woos the sun; now following; now in front。 

    I was not ware of our ascending to it; But of our being in it gave full 

faith My Lady whom I saw more beauteous grow。 

    And as within a flame a spark is seen; And as within a voice a voice 

discerned; When one is steadfast; and one comes and goes; 

    Within that light beheld I other lamps Move in a circle; speeding more 

and less; Methinks in measure of their inward vision。 

    From a cold cloud descended never winds; Or visible or not; so rapidly 

They would not laggard and impeded seem 

    To any one who had those lights divine Seen come towards us; leaving 

the gyration Begun at first in the high Seraphim。 

    And behind those that most in front appeared Sounded 〃Osanna!〃 so 

that never since To hear again was I without desire。 

    Then unto us more nearly one approached; And it alone began: 〃We all 

are ready Unto thy pleasure; that thou joy in us。 

    We turn around with the celestial Princes; One gyre and one gyration 

and one thirst; To whom thou in the world of old didst say; 

    'Ye who; intelligent; the third heaven are moving;' And are so full of 

love; to pleasure thee A little quiet will not be less sweet。〃 

    After   these  eyes   of  mine  themselves    had  offered   Unto  my   Lady 

reverently; and she Content and certain of herself had made them; 

    Back to the light they turned; which so great promise Made of itself; 

and 〃Say; who art thou?〃 was My voice; imprinted with a great affection。 

    O    how   and  how   much    I  beheld  it  grow  With   the  new   joy  that 

superadded was Unto its joys; as soon as I had spoken! 



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     Thus   changed;   it   said   to   me:   〃The   world   possessed   me   Short   time 

below; and; if it had been more; Much evil will be which would not have 

been。 

     My   gladness   keepeth   me   concealed   from   thee;   Which   rayeth   round 

about me; and doth hide me Like as a creature swathed in its own silk。 

     Much didst thou love me; and thou hadst good reason; For had I been 

below;   I   should   have   shown   thee   Somewhat   beyond   the   foliage   of   my 

love。 

     That   left…hand   margin;   which   doth   bathe   itself   In   Rhone;   when   it   is 

mingled with the Sorgue; Me for its lord awaited in due time; 

     And that horn of Ausonia; which is towned With Bari; with Gaeta and 

Catona; Whence Tronto and Verde in the sea disgorge。 

     Already flashed upon my brow the crown Of th
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