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Mark's, in which the spur profile approximates to that of No. 10 in Plate XI.; but it is formed by a cherub, who sweeps downwards on the wing. His two wings, as they half close, form the upper part of the spur, and the rise of it in the front is formed by exactly the action of Alichino, swooping on the pitch lake: "quei drizzo, volando, suso il petto."
Parsons, by taking further liberty with the original, has not surpassed it: "And she to me: The mightiest of all woes Is in the midst of misery to be cursed With bliss remembered." "Ond' ella, appresso d'un pio sospiro, Gli occhi drizzo ver me con quel sembiante, Che madre fa sopra figlinol deliro." And, finally, the beginning of the eighth canto of the "Purgatorio":
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