Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butter…

Dante Alighieri
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Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows? ✨ Dante Alighieri, Charles Hall Grandgent (1947). The Portable Dante: The Divine Comedy, Complete
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