8 And, so mayest thou return to the sweet world, tell me wherefore is that people so pitiless 84 against my party in its every law?” Thereon I to him: “The rout and the great carnage which colored the Arbia red 87 cause such prayer to be made in our temple.” After he had, sighing, shaken his head, “In that I was not alone,” he said, “nor surely 90 without cause would I have moved with the others; but I was alone there, where it was agreed by every one to destroy Florence, 93 he who defended her with open face.” “Ah! so may your seed ever have repose,” I prayed to him, “loose for me that knot, 96 which has here entangled my judgment. It seems, if I hear rightly, that ye see in advance that which time is bringing with it, 99 and as to the present have another way.” “We see like him who has bad light, the things,” he said, “that are far from us, 102 so much the supreme Ruler still shines on us; when they draw near, or are, our intelligence is wholly vain, and, if another report not to us, 105 we know nothing of your human state; wherefore thou canst comprehend that our knowledge will be utterly dead from that moment 108 when the gate of the future shall be closed.”
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