Tanto, che il su andar ti sia leggiero, Come a seconda giù l'andar per nave: Allor sarai al fin d'esto sentiero; Quivi di riposar l'affanno aspetta: Più non rispondo, e questo so per vero. CANTO V, Lines 1-21. Io era già da quell'ombre partito, Pur me, pur me, e il lume ch'era rotto. Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla that going up it will be as easy as going down the current in a ship, then wilt thou be at the end of this path. rest from thy weariness. There expect More I answer not, and this I know for true." CANTO V, Lines 1-21. I had now parted from those shades, and was following the footsteps of my leader, when behind me, pointing his finger, one cried out: "Look, the ray seems not to shine on the left hand of that lower one, and he seems to bear himself like a living man. I turned my eyes at the sound of these words and saw them gaze with wonder at me, me only, and the light that was broken. "Why is thy mind so hampered," said the master, "that thou slackenest thy going? What matters it to thee what is whispered here? Follow after me and let the people talk. Stand like a firm tower that never shakes its head for blast of wind. Chè sempre l'uomo in cui pensier rampolla Sovra pensier, da sè dilunga il segno, Perchè la foga l'un dell'altro insolla. Lines 37-50. Vapori accesi non vid'io sì tosto E giunti là, con gli altri a noi dier volta, Con quelle membra, con le quai nascesti, Venian gridando, un poco il passo queta Guarda, se alcun di noi unque vedesti, Si che di lui di là novelle porti. Thought wells up: These lines recall the char For always the man in whom thought wells up on thought removes from himself his aim; for the force of one thought weakens that of another." Lines 37-50. Never did I see enkindled vapors in the early night so swiftly cleave the clear sky, nor August clouds at sunset, that these did not return upward in less time; and reaching there, they, with the others, wheeled round to us like a troop that goes without rein. "These folk that press to us are many, and they come to pray thee," said the Poet, "therefore go on and in thy going listen.' They came crying: "O soul, that goest to happiness with those limbs with which thou wast born, a little stay thy step; look if thou hast ever seen any one of us, so that thou mayest carry news of him to earth." acter of Hamlet, in whom "thought welled up on thought" and paralyzed action. CANTO VI, Lines 1-12. Quando si parte il giuoco della zara, Tal era io in quella turba spessa, Lines 67-87. Pur Virgilio si trasse a lei, pregando C'inchiese. ciava: E il dolce Duca incomin |