“Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned above all highth, bent down his eye, His own works and their works at once to view. About him all the sanctities of heaven Stood thick as stars, and from his sight received Beatitude past utterance.”

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The sixth hour is noon, and when noon is some six thousand miles away from us, the dawn is approaching, the shadow of the earth lies almost on a plane with it, and gradually the stars disappear. ↩

The nine circles of Angels, described in Canto XXVIII . ↩