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The essence of this blessed life consists
in keeping to the boundaries of God's will,
through which our wills become one single will;
so that, as we are ranged from step to step
throughout this kingdom, all this kingdom wills
that which will please the King whose will is rule.
And in His will there is our peace: that sea
to which all beings move -- the beings He
creates or nature makes -- such is His will.
Then it was clear to me how every place
in Heaven is in Paradise, though grace
does not rain equally from the High Good.
But just as, when our hunger has been sated
with one food, we still long to taste the other --
while thankful for the first, we crave the latter --
so was I in my words and in my gestures,
asking to learn from her (Beatrice) what was the web
of which her shuttle had not reached the end.
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