With mutual rays each other more embellished. I stood as one who in himself represses The point of his desire, and ventures not To question, he so feareth the too much. And now the largest and most luculent Among those pearls came forward, that it might Make my desire concerning it content. Within it then I heard: “If thou couldst see 1791 Even as myself the charity that burns Among us, thy conceits would be expressed; But, that by waiting thou mayst not come late To the high end, I will make answer even Unto the thought of which thou art so chary. That mountain on whose slope Cassino stands 1792 Was frequented of old upon its summit By a deluded folk and ill-disposed; And I am he who first up thither bore 1793 The name of Him who brought upon the earth The truth that so much sublimateth us. And such abundant grace upon me shone That all the neighboring towns I drew away