For this great Citie that does far surpas,
And this bright Angels towre quite dims that towre of glas.”
(I. x. 58.)
With his soul filled with the radiance of this vision of beauty, his eyes dazed—
“Through passing brightnesse, which did quite confound
His feeble sence, and too exceeding shyne.
So darke are earthly things compard to things divine—”
(I. x. 67.)
the Red Cross Knight descends from the Mount; and when after the completion of his labors he sees Una on the day of her betrothal, he wonders at a beauty in her which he has never before seen. Una has now laid aside her black veil, and shines upon him in the native undimmed splendor of truth.
“The blazing brightnesse of her beauties beame,