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THE PEACE OF GOD - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2 (Purgatorio) (English only trans.) [1321]

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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. The Italian Text with a Translation in English Blank Verse and a Commentary by Courtney Langdon, vol. 2 (Purgatorio) (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920).

Part of: The Divine Comedy, in 3 vols. (Langdon trans.)

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ALLA MIA

THE PEACE OF GOD

  • . . . . the peace,
  • which, following the feet of such a Guide,
  • hath now become my quest from world to world.

Purg. V, 61–63.

    • Past understanding is the Peace of God
    • By all that fail His Wrath to understand,
    • Who holds the olive in His gentle hand,
    • And in the other, a chastising rod.
    • When lightnings kill at Jove’s Olympian nod,
    • When tempests drown at Neptune’s stern command,
    • Their deeds are His, whose face once cheered the land
    • With smiles of love, whose feet the sea once trod.
    • God grant us, then, to understand His Wrath
    • By trusting in the justice of His Will,
    • Whate’er its bidding, till war’s trumpets cease;
    • And follow listening on the painful path
    • Where wrongs are righted, loud His voice or still,
    • Who, not as man’s world gives it, giveth peace.

June 22, 1917.