Beauty in Arts, Nature, and the Mystery

Here is the passage where Dante compares beauty in arts or in nature, with the spiritual beauty within oneself, of the Divine Mysteries:

And all that art and nature can contrive
to lure the eye and thus possess the mind,
be it in living flesh or portraiture

combined, would seem like nothing when compared
to the Divine delight with which I glowed
when once more I beheld her smiling face

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