8 But why so far above my sight do your desired words fly, 84 that the more it loses them the more it strives?” “In order that thou mayst know,” she said, “that school which thou hast followed, and mayst see how its doctrine 87 can follow my word; and mayst see that your way from the divine is distant so far, as is remote 90 from earth the heaven which highest hastens on.” Whereon I replied to her: “I do not remember that I estranged myself ever from you, 93 nor have I conscience of it that reproaches me.” “And if thou canst not remember it,” smiling she replied, “now call to mind 96 how this very day thou hast drunk of Lethe; and if from the smoke fire is inferred, this thy forgetfulness clearly proves 99 fault in thy will intent elsewhere. Truly shall henceforth be naked my words so far as it is befitting 102 to uncover them to thy rude sight.” And more flashing, and with slower steps, the sun was holding the circle of the meridian, 105 which appears here or there according to the point of view, when halted, as he halts, who goes in advance of people as a guide, 108 if he find some strange thing on his track,
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