The Paradiso by Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi

Author:Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Classics, Poetry, Medieval Literature
ISBN: 0451528050
Publisher: Signet Classic
Published: 2001-08-02T04:00:00+00:00

But it was fitting that to the broken stone

that guards the bridge, Florence should offer a victim

to mark the last day’s peace she has ever known.

With such as these, and others, my first life’s years

saw Florence live and prosper in such peace

that she had, then, no reason to shed tears.

With such as these I saw there in my past

so valiant and so just a populace

that none had ever seized the ensign’s mast

and hung the lily on it upside down.

Nor was the red dye of division known.”

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