still, which followed me
      Unto the palm and issue of the field,
    Wills that I whisper thee, thou take delight
      In her; and grateful to me is thy saying
      Whatever things Hope promises to thee.” 
    And I:  “The ancient Scriptures and the new
      The mark establish, and this shows it me, [89]
      Of all the souls whom God has made his friends. 
    Isaiah saith, that each one garmented
      In his own land shall be with twofold garments, [92]
      And his own land is this sweet life of yours. 
    Thy brother, too, far more explicitly,
      There where he treateth of the robes of white, [95]
      This revelation manifests to us.” 
    And first, and near the ending of these words,
      Sperent in te from over us was heard,
      To which responsive answered all the carols. [99]
    Thereafterward among them gleamed a light, [100]
      So that, if Cancer such a crystal had,
      Winter would have a month of one sole day. [102]
    And as uprises, goes, and enters the dance
      A joyous maiden, only to do honor
      To the new bride, and not from any failing, [105]
    So saw I the illuminated splendor
      Approach the two, who in a wheel revolved, [107]
      As was beseeming to their ardent love. 
    It joined itself there in the song and music;
      And fixed on them my Lady kept her look,
      Even as a bride, silent and motionless. 
    “This is the one who lay upon the breast
      Of him our Pelican; and this is he
      To the great office from the cross elected.” [114]
    My Lady thus; but therefore none the more
      Removed her sight from its fixed contemplation,
      Before or afterward, these words of hers. 
    Even as a man who gazes, and endeavors
      To see the eclipsing of the sun a little,
      And who, by seeing, sightless doth become,
    So I became before that latest fire, [122]
      While it was said, “Why dost thou daze thyself
      To see a thing which here has no existence? [124]
    Earth upon earth my body is, and shall be
      With all the others there, until our number
      With the eternal proposition tallies; [127]
    With the two garments in the blessed cloister [128]
      Are the two lights alone that have ascended:  [129]
      And this shalt thou take back into your world.” [130]
    And at this utterance the flaming circle
      Grew quiet, with the dulcet intermingling
      Of sound that by the trinal breath was made, [133]
    As to escape from danger or fatigue
      The oars that erst were in the water beaten
      Are all suspended