LITMIR.BIZ

      1: The First Ascent

      1 God’s glory moves and shows the universe

      shining in some parts more, in others less.

      I entered Heaven with joy too great for speech

      4 to glorify his light. I can recall

      only dim shadows of it now

      within this song. All you nine muses

      7 led by Virgil helped me evoke the steep

      descent to Hell and climb to reach this height.

      Sun-king Apollo too inspired their aid!

      10 I beg you, please give me such strength again,

      turn me into a perfect voice to sing

      of Heaven’s grandest things and crown myself

      13 with laurels, the one headgear fit for use

      by a true poet or great conqueror.

      Their fewness demonstrates in human kind

      16 a shameful lack of will. If I succeed,

      like spark from which flames leap, some after me

      may be inspired to write with greater skill.

      19 The sunrise greets us most days of the year

      from several degrees to north or south.

      When solar orbit touches other rings

      (equators earthly and celestial, 22

      ecliptic and the equinoctial)

      four circles make three crosses and so bring

      more harmony, and Summer can begin. 25

      The sun this morning rose at that good point.

      When Beatrice looked up at height of noon

      no eagle ever fixed upon the sun 28

      a gaze as clear, and since reflected

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