Paradiso, xx, 73-75 is Wrong

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“And the lark’s in the clear air singing.”

~ Sir Samuel Ferguson

It seems, though only seems, perhaps, the lark

Accepts that it has done enough.  Its song

Has been so lovely that this patriarch,

Celestial in myth, can take the strong

Decision to desist because its range

Includes a beauty nonpareil. A rest

He gives himself.  He pauses to arrange

His inspiration for another bout with breast

Of melody.  He does not really need

A rest because his music freshens him,

An angel fed on manna.  Notes accede

To briefest pause.  He then restarts his hymn.

  Since beauty drives him, he is not content

    Until he sweeps again with song’s assent.