Commentary Par XXXIII 142-145

The final four lines are divided into two parts, the first referring to an apparent failure ('Here my exalted vision lost its power'), in which the protagonist/poet, so recently rewarded with the comprehension of Everything ([Par XXXIII 141]), loses that vision, which is blotted out by his re-emergent humanity.  And then the poem's final sentence, begun with an adversative, ma (but), tells a quite different story: the protagonist's interior motions, that of his affective power (the will) and that of his intellective power (his transmuted desire), both move in harmony with God's cosmos.