2 The sun had now reached the horizon whose meridian circle covers 3 Jerusalem with its highest point; and the night which circles opposite to him was issuing forth from the Ganges with the Scales 6 which fall from her hand when she exceeds; so that the white and red cheeks, where I was, of the beautiful Aurora 9 through too much age were becoming orange. We were still alongside the sea, like folk who are thinking of their road, 12 who go in heart and in body linger; and lo! as, at approach of the morning, through the dense vapors Mars glows ruddy, 15 down in the west above the ocean floor, such appeared to me, — so may I again behold it! — a light along the sea coming so swiftly 18 that no flight equals its motion. From which when I had a little withdrawn my eye to ask my Leader, 21 again I saw it, brighter become and larger. Then on each side of it appeared to me a something, I knew not what, white, and beneath, 24 little by little, another came forth from it. My Master still said not a word, until the first white things appeared as wings; 27 then, when he clearly recognized the pilot,
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