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God's eye forever seeing everything,
saw nothing on earth equal to the soul He, through His compassion, made immortal as it came from, was made for Paradise. The soul is God's bride, a marriage based on loving faith, made beautiful by tender rich gifts and hope's swift light wings--she climbs up that stairway to Paradise so gaily. Then, as with allegorical figures, contemplation illumines the gazer who sees stretching far around her a ring of light, caritas, gazes on beauty, on the good, the stars, the Heavens' Maker scorns wealth, the world, but most of all, herself. |
An image of the Italian text from Visconti's 1840 edition |
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Notes: V XIV:174. See also B S1:37:103. Key |
