Ashay

My guide and I came on that hidden road
to make our way back into the bright world;
and with no care for any rest, we climbed --
he first, I following -- until I saw,
through a round opening, some of those things
of beauty Heaven bears. It was from there
that we emerged, to see -- once more -- the stars.


Lo duca e io per quel cammino ascoso
intrammo a ritornar nel chiaro mondo;
esanza cura aver d'alcun riposo,
salimmo sù, el promo e io secondo,
tanto ch'i' vidi de le cose belle
che porta 'l ciel, per un pertugio tondo.
E quindi uscimmo a rivender le stelle.

Dante Alighieri, led by Virgil, via Allen Mandelbaum, emerges from his hell to see, again, the stars. So may we all.