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V. Purgatorio, XXVI, 148.
"Ara vos prec per aquella valor
que vos guida al som de l'esalina,
sovenha vos a temps de ma dolor.
Poi s'ascose nel foco che li affina."  [Eliot's note] The purgatorial vision of
refining fire - as distinct from the fires of lust -
represents one of the hopeful fragments shored up by the
seeker for regeneration and order. (NA) Eliot used the
first three words (Ara Vos Prec) as a title for the
English version of the American Poems 1920.
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