What it achieved from Var unto the Rhine, 60 65 From what it wrought with the next standard-bearer Brutus and Cassius howl in Hell together, And Modena and Perugia dolent were; Still doth the mournful Cleopatra weep Because thereof, who, fleeing from before it, 70 75 With him it ran even to the Red Sea shore ; But what the standard that has made me speak If in the hand of the third Cæsar seen With eye unclouded and affection pure, Because the living Justice that inspires me. Line 70. From thence it came like lightning upon Juba; 85 Granted it, in the hand of him I speak of, The glory of doing vengeance for its wrath. Now here attend to what I answer thee; Later it ran with Titus to do vengeance The Holy Church, then underneath its wings Now hast thou power to judge of such as those Beneath some other standard; for this ever Already oftentimes the sons have wept The father's crime; and let him not believe 90 95 100 105 110 That God will change His scutcheon for the lilies. This little planet doth adorn itself With the good spirits that have active been, Thus deviating, must perforce the rays With our desert is portion of our joy, Because we see them neither less nor greater. 115 120 Herein doth living Justice sweeten so So in this life of ours the seats diverse They have not laughed, and therefore ill goes he Who makes his hurt of the good deeds of others. Four daughters, and each one of them a queen, Had Raymond Berenger, and this for him. Did Romeo, a poor man and a pilgrim ; And then malicious words incited him To summon to a reckoning this just man, Who rendered to him seven and five for ten. Then he departed poor and stricken in years, 125 130 135 And if the world could know the heart he had, 140 In begging bit by bit his livelihood, Though much it laud him, it would laud him more." CANTO. VII "OSANNA sanctus Deus Sabaoth, Superillustrans claritate tua Felices ignes horum malahoth!" In this wise, to its melody returning, This substance, upon which a double light Doubles itself, was seen by me to sing, And to their dance this and the others moved, And in the manner of swift-hurrying sparks Veiled themselves from me with a sudden distance. Doubting was I, and saying, "Tell her, tell her," Within me, "tell her," saying, "tell my Lady," Who slakes my thirst with her sweet effluences; And yet that reverence which doth lord it over The whole of me only by B and ICE, Bowed me again like unto one who drowses. Short while did Beatrice endure me thus; After what manner a just vengeance justly But I will speedily thy mind unloose; And do thou listen, for these words of mine By not enduring on the power that wills Curb for his good, that man who ne'er was born, Damning himself damned all his progeny; 5 ΙΟ 15 20 25 Whereby the human species down below. Considering who the Person was that suffered, To God and to the Jews one death was pleasing; Earth trembled at it and the Heaven was opened. 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 30 35 40 45 50 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 55 |