Dal mondo scese a i cicchi abissi, e poi
He from our World descending into Hell
And Purgatory, thence to Heaven arose,
And to the living back returned to tell
Of endless glory, and Eternal woes,
In verse divine, — each thought, each word a spell —
Lighting the deepest mysteries they disclose
To man's blind wonder, starlike. Earth full well
Shewed him the gratitude she always shows.
Ill did his thankless countrymen repay
Dante's high mind — a doom the good and great
Have often met before and since his day.
Yet give me still his genius and his fate!
With virtuous fame in exile to grow gray
Is more than worth the world's most prosperous state!
And Purgatory, thence to Heaven arose,
And to the living back returned to tell
Of endless glory, and Eternal woes,
In verse divine, — each thought, each word a spell —
Lighting the deepest mysteries they disclose
To man's blind wonder, starlike. Earth full well
Shewed him the gratitude she always shows.
Ill did his thankless countrymen repay
Dante's high mind — a doom the good and great
Have often met before and since his day.
Yet give me still his genius and his fate!
With virtuous fame in exile to grow gray
Is more than worth the world's most prosperous state!
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