Midway in the journey of our life → I came to myself in a dark wood, → 3 for the straight way was lost. - Dante Alighieri

O grace abounding and allowing me to dare
to fix my gaze on the Eternal Light,
so deep my vision was consumed in it!

I saw how it contains within its depths
all things bound in a single book by love
of which creation is the scattered leaves:

how substance, accident, and their relation
were fused in such a way that what I now
describe is but a glimmer of that Light.

For tears and laughter are such pursuivants
Unto the passion from which each springs forth,
In the most truthful least the will they follow.

But already my desire and my will
were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed,
by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars