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larryhammerCary renders Purgatorio viii.67-69 thus:
(If you're having trouble parsing that last line, try inserting a "that" after "cause." Don't thank me, thank Miltonic syntax.)
Longfellow, BTW, also has the ford, as does Mandelbaum:
Meanwhile, I'm almost amused to learn that on the fourth cornice of Purgatory we purge "the sin of gloominess." That's right: depression isn't just your own fault -- it's a sin. This one's also not Cary's fault, but his editor's.
Onward without sloth! ... or something like that.
---L.
Then turning round to me: "By that rare markThere is a BIG DIFFERENCE between saying God's purposes are "unfathomable" and they have "no ford." Just sayin'.
Of honor, which thou owest to him, who hides
So deeply his first cause it hath no ford; ...
(If you're having trouble parsing that last line, try inserting a "that" after "cause." Don't thank me, thank Miltonic syntax.)
Longfellow, BTW, also has the ford, as does Mandelbaum:
Then, when he turned to me: "By that especialSayers has the image but expresses it differently:
gratitude you owe to Him who hides
his primal aim so that no human mind
may find the ford to it, ...
Then turned to me: "By that most singularCiardi just has the deep, thus showing he isn't.
Favour thou ow'st to Him whose primal why
Lies so deep hid, no wit can wade so far, ...
Meanwhile, I'm almost amused to learn that on the fourth cornice of Purgatory we purge "the sin of gloominess." That's right: depression isn't just your own fault -- it's a sin. This one's also not Cary's fault, but his editor's.
Onward without sloth! ... or something like that.
---L.