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"E venni dal martirio a questa pace."
These words the poet heard in Paradise, / Uttered by one who, bravely dying here, / In the true faith was living in that sphere / Where the celestial cross of sacrifice / Spread its protecting arms athwart the skies; / And set thereon, like jewels crystal clear, / The souls magnanimous, that knew not fear, / Flashed their effulgence on his dazzled eyes. / Ah me! how dark the discipline of pain, / Were not the suffering followed by the sense / Of infinite rest and infinite release! / This is our consolation; and again / A great soul cries to us in our suspense, / "I came from martyrdom unto this peace! "