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Inferno
Canto I
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Midway upon the journey of our life
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I found myself within a forest dark,
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For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
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Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
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What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
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Which in the very thought renews the fear.
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So bitter is it, death is little more;
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But of the good to treat, which there I found,
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Speak will I of the other things I saw there.
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I cannot well repeat how there I entered,
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So full was I of slumber at the moment
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In which I had abandoned the true way.
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But after I had reached a mountain’s foot,
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At that point where the valley terminated,
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Which had with consternation pierced my heart,
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Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders,
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Vested already with that planet’s rays
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Which leadeth others right by every road.
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Then was the fear a little quieted
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That in my heart’s lake had endured throughout
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The night, which I had passed so piteously.
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And even as he, who, with distressful breath,
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Forth issued from the sea upon the shore,
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Turns to the water perilous and gazes;
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So did my soul, that still was fleeing onward,
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Turn itself back to re-behold the pass
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Which never yet a living person left.
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After my weary body I had rested,
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The way resumed I on the desert slope,
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So that the firm foot ever was the lower.
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And lo! almost where the ascent began,
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A panther light and swift exceedingly,
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Canto I
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Which with a spotted skin was covered o’er!
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Canto I
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And never moved she from before my face,
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Nay, rather did impede so much my way,
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That many times I to return had turned.
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The time was the beginning of the morning,
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And up the sun was mounting with those stars
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That with him were, what time the Love Divine
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At first in motion set those beauteous things;
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So were to me occasion of good hope,
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The variegated skin of that wild beast,
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The hour of time, and the delicious season;
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But not so much, that did not give me fear
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A lion’s aspect which appeared to me.
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He seemed as if against me he were coming
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With head uplifted, and with ravenous hunger,
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So that it seemed the air was afraid of him;
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And a she-wolf, that with all hungerings
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Seemed to be laden in her meagreness,
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And many folk has caused to live forlorn!
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She brought upon me so much heaviness,
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With the affright that from her aspect came,
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That I the hope relinquished of the height.
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And as he is who willingly acquires,
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And the time comes that causes him to lose,
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Who weeps in all his thoughts and is despondent,
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E’en such made me that beast withouten peace,
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Which, coming on against me by degrees
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Thrust me back thither where the sun is silent.
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While I was rushing downward to the lowland,
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Before mine eyes did one present himself,
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Who seemed from long-continued silence hoarse.
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When I beheld him in the desert vast,
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“Have pity on me,” unto him I cried,
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“Whiche’er thou art, or shade or real man!”
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He answered me: “Not man; man once I was,
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And both my parents were of Lombardy,
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And Mantuans by country both of them.
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‘Sub Julio’ was I born, though it was late,
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And lived at Rome under the good Augustus,
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During the time of false and lying gods.
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A poet was I, and I sang that just
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Son of Anchises, who came forth from Troy,
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After that Ilion the superb was burned.
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But thou, why goest thou back to such annoyance?
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Why climb’st thou not the Mount Delectable,
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Which is the source and cause of every joy?”
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“Now, art thou that Virgilius and that fountain
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Which spreads abroad so wide a river of speech?”
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I made response to him with bashful forehead.
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“O, of the other poets honour and light,
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Avail me the long study and great love
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That have impelled me to explore thy volume!
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Thou art my master, and my author thou,
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Thou art alone the one from whom I took
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The beautiful style that has done honour to me.
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Behold the beast, for which I have turned back;
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Do thou protect me from her, famous Sage,
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For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.”
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“Thee it behoves to take another road,”
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Responded he, when he beheld me weeping,
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“If from this savage place thou wouldst escape;
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Because this beast, at which thou criest out,
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Suffers not any one to pass her way,
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But so doth harass him, that she destroys him;
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And has a nature so malign and ruthless,
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That never doth she glut her greedy will,
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And after food is hungrier than before.
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Many the animals with whom she weds,