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“And when the Holy CHurch lay gored and rent by the fierce Lombard’s tusk, beneath its wings Charlemain, in triumph, to her rescue went”

“And when the Holy CHurch lay gored and rent by the fierce Lombard’s tusk, beneath its wings Charlemain, in triumph, to her rescue went”

“I saw my lady there so radiate joy, as within that shining heaven she passed, that the bright planet grew thence brighter still”

“I saw my lady there so radiate joy, as within that shining heaven she passed, that the bright planet grew thence brighter still”

“Beatrice did as Daniel did, when he Nubuchadnezzer from an anger freed which drove him to unrighteous cruelty”

“Beatrice did as Daniel did, when he Nubuchadnezzer from an anger freed which drove him to unrighteous cruelty”

“Whence I to her: ‘Your faces, thus array’d, glow with I know not what of heavenly sheen, making one’s former notions of you fade”

“Whence I to her: ‘Your faces, thus array’d, glow with I know not what of heavenly sheen, making one’s former notions of you fade”

“The holy spheres, with virtue and motion fired, like hammer guided by the workman’s skill, by their blest movers needs must be inspired”

“The holy spheres, with virtue and motion fired, like hammer guided by the workman’s skill, by their blest movers needs must be inspired”

“Within the heaven his brightest beams caress was I, and things beheld which none returning to earth hath power or knowledge to express”

“Within the heaven his brightest beams caress was I, and things beheld which none returning to earth hath power or knowledge to express”