• Translated by Henry Francis Cary
    Selections from “The Divine Comedy”
    Paradise: Canto XXXI.
    IN fashion, as a snow-white rose, lay then
    Before my view the saintly multitude,
    Which is his own blood Christ espoused. Meanwhile,
    That other host, that soar aloft to gaze
    And celebrate his glory, whom they love,
    Hovered around; and, like a...