Her weeping eyes
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Poscia che m’ ebbe ragionato questo, li occhi lucenti lagrimando volse, per che mi fece del venir più presto.
After she had said this to me, she turned away her shining eyes, weeping, which made me the readier to come to you.
After she had spoken this to me, Virgil says, she turned away her shining eyes, weeping, which made me the readier to come.
Even Beatrice weeps. Her <i>occhi lucenti</i> — the same eyes that outshone the star — now brim with tears for Dante, and that grief is what quickens Virgil most of all.
The detail is tender and precise: it is not the command but the tears that move him. Compassion, felt and shown, is the current running through every level of this rescue, from the Virgin down to the shade who will walk beside the pilgrim.
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