“Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.”

— Dante Alighieri , book Paradiso

Canto XX, lines 73–77 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso

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Quale allodetta che 'n aere si spazia prima cantando, e poi tace contenta de l'ultima dolcezza che la sazia, tal mi sembiò l'imago de la 'mprenta de l'etterno piacere.

The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso

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