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non si smarriva, ma tutto prendeva |
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my sight was not confused but shared |
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il quanto e 'l quale di quella allegrezza. |
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the full extent and quality of that rejoicing. |
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Presso e lontano, lì, né pon né leva: |
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There, near and far do neither add nor take away, |
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ché dove Dio sanza mezzo governa, |
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for where God, unmediated, rules |
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la legge natural nulla rileva. |
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natural law has no effect. |
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Nel giallo de la rosa sempiterna, |
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Into the yellow of the sempiternal rose, |
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che si digrada e dilata e redole |
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which rises in its ranks, expands, and exhales |
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odor di lode al sol che sempre verna, |
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fragrances that praise the Sun's perpetual spring, |
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qual è colui che tace e dicer vole, |
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I, like a man who is silent but would speak, |
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mi trasse Bëatrice, e disse: "Mira |
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was led by Beatrice, and she said: 'Behold |
