Canto XXII

Those words which thou hast spoken concerning him.” Already he was stooping to embrace My Teacher’s feet; but he said to him: “Brother, 956 Do not; for shade thou art, and shade beholdest.” And he uprising: “Now canst thou the sum Of love which warms me to thee comprehend, When this our vanity I disremember, Treating a shadow as substantial thing.”

The Sixth Circle⁠—The Gluttonous⁠—The Mystic Tree.

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