Dello Intelletto, e fieti manifesto
L’error de’ ciechi, chi si fanno duci.’
—Purg. xviii. 16.
Turn thy sharp lights of intellect towards me
And many errors will be manifest,
In many a volume by the world possessed,
Of men called leaders, and who claim to be.
Blackness of hell, and of a night unblest
By any planet in a barren sky
Which dunnest clouds to utmost gloom congest,