Quale per li seren tranquilli e puri Discorre ad ora ad or subito fuoco Movendo gli occhi che stavan sicuri, E pare stella che tramuti loco, Se non che dalla parte onde s'accende Nulla sen perde, ed esso dura poco;--_Parad._ 15.[132] or, again, that characteristic sight of the Italian summer night--the fire-flies: Quante il villan che al poggio si riposa, Nel tempo che colui che 'l mondo schiara La faccia sua a noi tien men ascosa, Come la mosca cede alla zenzara, Vede lucciole giù per la vallea Forse colà dove vendemmia ed ara.--_Inf._ 26.[133] [Footnote 130: And lo, on high, and lurid as the one Now there, encircling it, a light arose, Like heaven when re-illumined by the sun: And as at the first lighting up of eve The sky doth new appearances disclose, That now seem real, now the sight deceive.--WRIGHT.] [Footnote 131: When he, who with his universal ray The world illumines, quits our hemisphere, And, from each quarter, daylight wears away; The heaven, erst kindled by his beam alone, Sudden its lost effulgence doth repair By many lights illumined but by one.--IBID.] [Footnote 132: As oft along the pure and tranquil sky A sudden fire by night is seen to dart, Attracting forcibly the heedless eye; And seems to be a star that changes place, Save that no star is lost from out the part It quits, and that it lasts a moment's space.--WRIGHT.] [Footnote 133: As in that season when the sun least veils His face that lightens all, what time the fly Gives place to the shrill gnat, the peasant then, Upon some cliff reclined, beneath him sees Fire-flies innumerous spangling o'er the vale, Vineyard or tilth, where his day-labour lies.--CARY.] Noon, too, does not want its characteristic touches--the lightning-like glancing of the lizard's rapid motion: Come il ramarro sotto la gran fersa Ne' dì canicular cangiando siepe Folgore par, se la via attraversa;--_Inf._ 25.[134] the motes in the sunbeam at noontide (_Par._ 14); its clear, diffused, insupportable brightness, filling all things: E tutti eran già pieni Dell'alto dì i giron del sacro monte.--_Purg._ 19. and veiling the sun in his own light: Io veggio ben sì come _tu t'annidi Nel proprio lume_. * * * * Sì come 'l sol che si cela egli stessi Per troppa luce, quando 'l caldo ha rose Le temperanze de' vapori spessi.--_Parad._ 5. [Footnote 134: As underneath the dog-star's scorching ray The lizard, darting swift from fence to fence, Appears like lightning, if he cross the way.--WRIGHT.]