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The Banquet (Il Convito)

CHAPTER III
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And this is one unspeakable thing of that which I have taken for a theme; and consequently I relate the other when I say: His words make music of so sweet a kind That the Soul hears and feels, and cries, Ah, me, That I want power to tell what thus I see! And because I know not how to tell it, I say that my soul laments, saying, "Ah, me, that I want power." And this is the other unspeakable thing, that the tongue is not a complete and perfect follower of all that the intellect sees.

And I say, "That the Soul hears and feels;" hearing, as to the words, and feeling, as to the sweetness of the sound..


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