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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: And gracious thou so quickly to obey The truth alone that gentle angel spake In her kind words, and thou no less with thine Dost in my bosom such desire awake That gladly I renew my first design. Then, since one wish conducts us both, lead on Thou art my Lord, my Master, and my Guide. Thus I addressed the shadow, and anon Through the steep woody way began to glide. CANTO THE THIRD. Through me you reach the City of Despair: Through me eternal wretchedness ye find: Through me among perdition's tribe ye fare: Justice inspired my lofty founder's mind: Power, love, and wisdom, heavenly, first, most high, Created me. Before me naught had been Save things eternal, and eterne am I: Leave here all hope, O ye who enter in These words upon the gateway, overhead, In blackest letters written, I discerned. Master, their sense is terrible, I said; And thus to me the ready Sage returned: Perish each coward thought be firm, be bold: We 've reached the place wherein, as told thou wast, The miserable race thou shalt behold, Who of their intellect the good have lost. And thereupon my hand he took in his, With a glad look, fresh courage to bestow, And straight unfolded all the mysteries, 'Mid sighs, laments, and hollow howls of woe, Which, loud resounding through the starless air, Forced tears of pity from mine eyes at first; For divers tongues and horrid language there, With words of agony, wrath's frequent burst, Shrieks, and hoarse outcries, with a noise of hands, Mingling forever, vex hi tumult strange, As when a whirlwind tosses round the sands, That air whose tints come from no season's change. And I, my head in stupid horror bound, Said: Master, tell me, what is this I hear ? What wretched souls are these in anguish d...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217346023 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217346022 |
| Weight | 1.08 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.74 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 332 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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