6 Thenceforward my vision was greater than our speech, which to such a sight yields, 57 and yields the memory to such excess. As is he who dreaming sees, and after the dream the passion imprinted 60 remains, and the rest to the mind returns not, such am I; for almost wholly depans my vision, which yet distils 63 within my heart the sweetness that was born of it. Thus the snow by the sun is unsealed; thus by the wind, on the light leaves, 66 was lost the saying of the Sibyl. O Supreme Light, that so high upliftest Thyself from mortal conceptions, to my mind 69 re-lend a little of what Thou didst appear, and make my tongue so powerful that one single spark of Thy glory 72 it may be able to leave for the folk to come; for, by returning somewhat to my memory and by sounding a little in these verses, 75 more shall be conceived of Thy victory. I think that by the keenness which I endured of the living ray, I should have been dazed 78 if my eyes from it had been averted; and I remember that I was the more hardy on this account to sustain it till I conjoined 81 my gaze with the Infinite Goodness.
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