第 11 节
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辛苦 更新:2021-02-20 05:04 字数:9322
In the world tainted with the selfsame sin。
Priscian goes yonder with that wretched crowd;
And Francis of Accorso; and thou hadst seen there
If thou hadst had a hankering for such scurf;
That one; who by the Servant of the Servants
From Arno was transferred to Bacchiglione;
Where he has left his sin…excited nerves。
More would I say; but coming and discoursing
Can be no longer; for that I behold
New smoke uprising yonder from the sand。
A people comes with whom I may not be;
Commended unto thee be my Tesoro;
In which I still live; and no more I ask。〃
Then he turned round; and seemed to be of those
Who at Verona run for the Green Mantle
Across the plain; and seemed to be among them
The one who wins; and not the one who loses。
Inferno: Canto XVI
Now was I where was heard the reverberation
Of water falling into the next round;
Like to that humming which the beehives make;
When shadows three together started forth;
Running; from out a company that passed
Beneath the rain of the sharp martyrdom。
Towards us came they; and each one cried out:
〃Stop; thou; for by thy garb to us thou seemest
To be some one of our depraved city。〃
Ah me! what wounds I saw upon their limbs;
Recent and ancient by the flames burnt in!
It pains me still but to remember it。
Unto their cries my Teacher paused attentive;
He turned his face towards me; and 〃Now wait;〃
He said; 〃to these we should be courteous。
And if it were not for the fire that darts
The nature of this region; I should say
That haste were more becoming thee than them。〃
As soon as we stood still; they recommenced
The old refrain; and when they overtook us;
Formed of themselves a wheel; all three of them。
As champions stripped and oiled are wont to do;
Watching for their advantage and their hold;
Before they come to blows and thrusts between them;
Thus; wheeling round; did every one his visage
Direct to me; so that in opposite wise
His neck and feet continual journey made。
And; 〃If the misery of this soft place
Bring in disdain ourselves and our entreaties;〃
Began one; 〃and our aspect black and blistered;
Let the renown of us thy mind incline
To tell us who thou art; who thus securely
Thy living feet dost move along through Hell。
He in whose footprints thou dost see me treading;
Naked and skinless though he now may go;
Was of a greater rank than thou dost think;
He was the grandson of the good Gualdrada;
His name was Guidoguerra; and in life
Much did he with his wisdom and his sword。
The other; who close by me treads the sand;
Tegghiaio Aldobrandi is; whose fame
Above there in the world should welcome be。
And I; who with them on the cross am placed;
Jacopo Rusticucci was; and truly
My savage wife; more than aught else; doth harm me。〃
Could I have been protected from the fire;
Below I should have thrown myself among them;
And think the Teacher would have suffered it;
But as I should have burned and baked myself;
My terror overmastered my good will;
Which made me greedy of embracing them。
Then I began: 〃Sorrow and not disdain
Did your condition fix within me so;
That tardily it wholly is stripped off;
As soon as this my Lord said unto me
Words; on account of which I thought within me
That people such as you are were approaching。
I of your city am; and evermore
Your labours and your honourable names
I with affection have retraced and heard。
I leave the gall; and go for the sweet fruits
Promised to me by the veracious Leader;
But to the centre first I needs must plunge。〃
〃So may the soul for a long while conduct
Those limbs of thine;〃 did he make answer then;
〃And so may thy renown shine after thee;
Valour and courtesy; say if they dwell
Within our city; as they used to do;
Or if they wholly have gone out of it;
For Guglielmo Borsier; who is in torment
With us of late; and goes there with his comrades;
Doth greatly mortify us with his words。〃
〃The new inhabitants and the sudden gains;
Pride and extravagance have in thee engendered;
Florence; so that thou weep'st thereat already!〃
In this wise I exclaimed with face uplifted;
And the three; taking that for my reply;
Looked at each other; as one looks at truth。
〃If other times so little it doth cost thee;〃
Replied they all; 〃to satisfy another;
Happy art thou; thus speaking at thy will!
Therefore; if thou escape from these dark places;
And come to rebehold the beauteous stars;
When it shall pleasure thee to say; 'I was;'
See that thou speak of us unto the people。〃
Then they broke up the wheel; and in their flight
It seemed as if their agile legs were wings。
Not an Amen could possibly be said
So rapidly as they had disappeared;
Wherefore the Master deemed best to depart。
I followed him; and little had we gone;
Before the sound of water was so near us;
That speaking we should hardly have been heard。
Even as that stream which holdeth its own course
The first from Monte Veso tow'rds the East;
Upon the left…hand slope of Apennine;
Which is above called Acquacheta; ere
It down descendeth into its low bed;
And at Forli is vacant of that name;
Reverberates there above San Benedetto
From Alps; by falling at a single leap;
Where for a thousand there were room enough;
Thus downward from a bank precipitate;
We found resounding that dark…tinted water;
So that it soon the ear would have offended。
I had a cord around about me girt;
And therewithal I whilom had designed
To take the panther with the painted skin。
After I this had all from me unloosed;
As my Conductor had commanded me;
I reached it to him; gathered up and coiled;
Whereat he turned himself to the right side;
And at a little distance from the verge;
He cast it down into that deep abyss。
〃It must needs be some novelty respond;〃
I said within myself; 〃to the new signal
The Master with his eye is following so。〃
Ah me! how very cautious men should be
With those who not alone behold the act;
But with their wisdom look into the thoughts!
He said to me: 〃Soon there will upward come
What I await; and what thy thought is dreaming
Must soon reveal itself unto thy sight。〃
Aye to that truth which has the face of falsehood;
A man should close his lips as far as may be;
Because without his fault it causes shame;
But here I cannot; and; Reader; by the notes
Of this my Comedy to thee I swear;
So may they not be void of lasting favour;
Athwart that dense and darksome atmosphere
I saw a figure swimming upward come;
Marvellous unto every steadfast heart;
Even as he returns who goeth down
Sometimes to clear an anchor; which has grappled
Reef; or aught else that in the sea is hidden;
Who upward stretches; and draws in his feet。
Inferno: Canto XVII
〃Behold the monster with the pointed tail;
Who cleaves the hills; and breaketh walls and weapons;
Behold him who infecteth all the world。〃
Thus unto me my Guide began to say;
And beckoned him that he should come to shore;
Near to the confine of the trodden marble;
And that uncleanly image of deceit
Came up and thrust ashore its head and bust;
But on the border did not drag its tail。
The face was as the face of a just man;
Its semblance outwardly was so benign;
And of a serpent all the trunk beside。
Two paws it had; hairy unto the armpits;
The back; and breast; and both the sides it had
Depicted o'er with nooses and with shields。
With colours more; groundwork or broidery
Never in cloth did Tartars make nor Turks;
Nor were such tissues by Arachne laid。
As sometimes wherries lie upon the shore;
That part are in the water; part on land;
And as among the guzzling Germans there;
The beaver plants himself to wage his war;
So that vile monster lay upon the border;
Which is of stone; and shutteth in the sand。
His tail was wholly quivering in the void;
Contorting upwards the envenomed fork;
That in the guise of scorpion armed its point。
The Guide said: 〃Now perforce must turn aside
Our way a little; even to that beast
Malevolent; that yonder coucheth him。〃
We therefore on the right side descended;
And made ten steps upon the outer verge;
Completely to avoid the sand and flame;
And after we are come to him; I see
A little farther off upon the sand
A people sitting near the hollow place。
Then said to me the Master: 〃So that full
Experience of this round thou bear away;
Now go and see what their condition is。
There let thy conversation be concise;
Till thou returnest I will speak with him;
That he concede to us his stalwart shoulders。〃
Thus farther still upon the outermost
Head of that seventh circle all alone
I went; where sat the melancholy folk。
Out of their eyes was gushing forth their woe;
This way; that way; they helped them with their hands
Now from the flames and now from the hot soil。
Not otherwise in summer do the dogs;
Now with the foot; now with the muzzle; when
By fleas; or flies
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