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Beatrice, who hesitated for a moment as if to decide upon her song, at last caught her idea from this scene around her, and began one of the most magnificent of Italian compositions: "I cieli immensi narrano Del grand' Iddio la gloria." Her first notes poured forth with a sweetness and fullness that arrested the attention of all on board the ship.
Your fleets and armies at that time required as many hands as could be supplied; and women and children were consumed with proportionate rapidity by your manufactures. Moreover, there was the wholesome drain of emigration open "Facta est immensi copia mundi." Montesinos. Thus it is that men collectively as well as individually create for themselves so large a part of the evils they endure.
Here she was like one of the classic nymphs like the genius of the spot like Calypso, only passionless. Now, the more Brandon felt the power of her presence the more he took refuge within himself, avoiding all dangerous topics, speaking only of external things, calling upon her to sing of loftier themes, such as those "cieli immensi" of which she had sung when he first heard her.
To repeat the example we have already noticed in the first book, when asking Nero which part of heaven he is selecting for his abode, he prays him not to choose one far removed from the centre, lest his vast weight should disturb the balance of the universe! "Aetheris immensi partem si presseris unam Sentiet axis onus."
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