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“For when your longings center on things such
That sharing them apportions less to each,
Then envy stirs the bellows of your sighs.
But if the love within the Highest Sphere
Should turn your longings heavenward, the fear
Inhabiting your breast would disappear;
For there, the more there are who would say ‘ours’,
So much the greater is the good possessed
By each…”
(Purgatorio XV)
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That sharing them apportions less to each,
Then envy stirs the bellows of your sighs.
But if the love within the Highest Sphere
Should turn your longings heavenward, the fear
Inhabiting your breast would disappear;
For there, the more there are who would say ‘ours’,
So much the greater is the good possessed
By each…”
(Purgatorio XV)
