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Rh I, who desirous of obeying was,

Concealed it not, but all revealed to him;

Whereat he raised his brows a little upward.

Then said he: "Fiercely adverse have they been

To me, and to my fathers, and my party;

So that two several times I scattered them."

"If they were banished, they returned on all sides,"

I answered him, "the first time and the second;

But yours have not acquired that art aright."

Then there uprose upon the sight, uncovered

Down to the chin, a shadow at his side;

I think that he had risen on his knees.

Round me he gazed, as if solicitude

He had to see if some one else were with me;

But after his suspicion was all spent,

Weeping, he said to me: "If through this blind

Prison thou goest by loftiness of genius,

Where is my son? and why is he not with thee?"

And I to him: "I come not of myself;

He who is waiting yonder leads me here,

Whom in disdain perhaps your Guido had."

His language and the mode of punishment

Already unto me had read his name;

On that account my answer was so full.