4 And I, who never for my own vision burned more than I do for his, all my prayers 30 to thee proffer, and pray that they be not scant, that thou every cloud for him wouldst dispel of his mortality with thy prayers, 33 so that the Supreme Pleasure to him may be displayed. Further I pray thee, Queen, who canst whatso thou wilt, that thou wouldst preserve sound, 36 after so great a vision, his affections. May thy guardianship vanquish human impulses. Behold Beatrice with all the Blessed 39 for my prayers clasp their hands to thee.” The eyes by God beloved and venerated, fixed on the speaker, to us showed 42 how pleasing unto her are devout prayers. Then to the Eternal Light were they directed, to which it may not be believed that enters in 45 of any creature eye so clear. And I who to the end of all desires was approaching, even as I ought, 48 the ardor of my longing within myself ended. Bernard to me made a sign, and smiled, that I should look upward; but I was 51 already, of myself, such as he wished; for my sight, becoming pure, more and more was entering through the radiance 54 of the lofty Light which in Itself is true.
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