Thy wishes hence which in this sphere are born, Still farther to proceed behoveth me. Thou fain wouldst know who is within this light That here beside me thus is scintillating, Even as a sunbeam in the limpid water. Then know thou, that within there is at rest Rahab, and being to our order joined, 1407 With her in its supremest grade ’tis sealed. Into this heaven, where ends the shadowy cone 1408 Cast by your world, before all other souls First of Christ’s triumph was she taken up. 1409 Full meet it was to leave her in some heaven, Even as a palm of the high victory Which he acquired with one palm and the other, 1410 Because she favored the first glorious deed 1411 Of Joshua upon the Holy Land, 1412 That little stirs the memory of the Pope. Thy city, which an offshoot is of him