306. ‘Quel sol che mi mostrava il camin destro’

That sun that showed me the right road

to climb to heaven with glorious steps,

turning to the highest Sun, has shut my light

and her terrestrial prison beneath a little stone:

so I have become a wild creature, lonely

and weary, with wandering feet,

carrying a heavy heart and wet downcast eyes

through the world, a mountainous desert to me.

So I go searching again for every place

I saw her: and only you, who afflict me,

Love, come with me, and show me the way.

I do not find her: yet I always see

her sacred footsteps on the heavenly path,

far from Lake Avernus and the Styx.