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Excerpt from Dante and Swedenborg: With Other Essays on the New Renaissance Dante. Ah! not as one who builds a world while dreaming, And wakes to find his shadowy visions flee, Oh, man of during wing, thine eye did see The things that are to mortal sense but seeming. In the strange stuff of shadows palely gleaming Take awful shapes the things men dread to know, From hell's abyss to heaven's high roseate glow, Marking the pathway of our soul's redeeming. But now the night is past; the sun is high. Ghosts flee, and fancied action calls for deeds. Whither then, Dante, is thy shade-world going? O wonder! see its very substance glowing! Glitter in sunshine all its dewy meads! Its dismal cliffs stand black against the sky! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.