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Inferno

Dante Alighieri

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1. Midway on our life’s journey, I found myself
In dark woods, the right road lost.


2 . through me you enter into the city of woes
through me you enter into eternal pain,
through me you enter the population of loss.
. . .
abandon all hope, you who enter here.


3. . . . One day, for pleasure,
We read of Lancelot, by love constrained:
Alone, suspecting nothing, at our leisure.
. . .
And so was he who wrote it; that day we read
. . .
No further. . . .


4. I did not open them—for to be rude
To such a one as him was courtesy.


5. To get back up to the shining world from there
My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel;
. . .
Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.




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