Behold that circle most conjoined to it, And know thou, that its motion is so swift Through burning love whereby it is spurred on.” And I to her: “If the world were arranged In the order which I see in yonder wheels, What’s set before me would have satisfied me; But in the world of sense we can perceive That evermore the circles are diviner As they are from the centre more remote Wherefore if my desire is to be ended In this miraculous and angelic temple, That has for confines only love and light, To hear behoves me still how the example 1971 And the exemplar go not in one fashion, Since for myself in vain I contemplate it.” “If thine own fingers unto such a knot Be insufficient, it is no great wonder, So hard hath it become for want of trying.” 1972 My Lady thus; then said she: “Do thou take What I shall tell thee, if thou wouldst be sated, And exercise on that thy subtlety. The circles corporal are wide and narrow