Dante's Paradiso

There are the wisdom and omnipotence

That oped the thoroughfares 'twixt heaven and earth,

For which there erst had been so long a yearning."

As fire from out a cloud itself discharges,

Dilating so it finds not room therein,

And down, against its nature, falls to earth,

So did my mind, among those aliments

Becoming larger, issue from itself,

And what became of it cannot remember.

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From "Three Cantos of Dante's Paradiso" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow