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PARADISE. SIN AND REDEMPTION. CANTO VII. What I have heard, Is plain, thou say'st: but wherefore God this way For our redemption ...

"Man in himself had ever lacked the means Of satisfaction, for he could not stoop Obeying, in humility so low, As high, he, diso ...

Power to look up; and I beheld myself, Sole with my lady, to more lofty bliss Translated: for the star, with warmer smile Impurp ...

* THE SAINTS IN GLORY. CANTO XXXI. In fashion, as a snow-white rose, lay then Before my view the saintly multitude, Which is ...

Of all its goodly state; e'en so mine eyes Coursed up and down along the living light, Now low, and now aloft, and now around, V ...