For nevermore result of reasoning
(Because of human pleasure that doth change,Obedient to the heavens) was durable.
A natural action is it that man speaks;But whether thus or thus, doth nature leaveTo your own art, as seemeth best to you.
Ere I descended to the infernal anguish,‘El’ was on earth the name of the Chief Good,From whom comes all the joy that wraps me round
‘Eli’ he then was called, and that is proper,Because the use of men is like a leafOn bough, which goeth and another cometh.
Upon the mount that highest o’er the waveRises was I, in life or pure or sinful,From the first hour to that which is the second,
As the sun changes quadrant, to the sixth.”
Paradiso: Canto XXVII
“Glory be to the Father, to the Son,And Holy Ghost!” all Paradise began,So that the melody inebriate made me.
What I beheld seemed unto me a smileOf the universe; for my inebriationFound entrance through the hearing and the sight.