He that approacheth nearest to my beak 1751 Did the poor widow for her son console; Now knoweth he how dearly it doth cost Not following Christ, by the experience Of this sweet life and of its opposite. He who comes next in the circumference 1752 Of which I speak, upon its highest arc, Did death postpone by penitence sincere; 1753 Now knoweth he that the eternal judgment Suffers no change, albeit worthy prayer Maketh below tomorrow of today. The next who follows, with the laws and me, 1754 Under the good intent that bore bad fruit 1755 Became a Greek by ceding to the pastor; Now knoweth he how all the ill deduced From his good action is not harmful to him, Although the world thereby may be destroyed. And he, whom in the downward arc thou seest, Guglielmo was, whom the same land deplores