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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Vision of Hell, Part 2, by Dante Alighieri Translated By The Rev. H. F. Cary, Illustrated by Gustave Dore This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Vision of Hell, Part 2, Translated By The Rev. H. F. Cary, Illustrated by Gustave Dore The Inferno Author: Dante Alighieri Release Date: August 7, 2004 [EBook #8780] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VISION OF HELL, PART 2 *** Produced by David Widger THE VISION OF HELL, PURGATORY, AND PARADISE OR THE INFERNO BY DANTE ALIGHIERI TRANSLATED BY THE REV. H. F. CARY, M.A. HELL Part 2 Cantos 3 - 4 CANTO III "THROUGH me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. "All hope abandon ye who enter here." Such characters in colour dim I mark'd Over a portal's lofty arch inscrib'd: Whereat I thus: "Master, these words import Hard meaning." He as one prepar'd replied: "Here thou must all distrust behind thee leave; Here be vile fear extinguish'd. We are come Where I have told thee we shall see the souls To misery doom'd, who intellectual good Have lost." And when his hand he had stretch'd forth To mine, with pleasant looks, whence I was cheer'd, Into that secret place he led me on. Here sighs with lamentations and loud moans Resounded through the air pierc'd by no star, That e'en I wept at entering. Various tongues, Horrible languages, outcries of woe, Accents of anger, voices deep and hoarse, With hands together smote that swell'd the sounds, Made up a tumult, that for ever whirls Round through that air with solid darkness stain'd, Like to the sand that in the whirlwind flies. I then, with error yet encompass'd, cried: "O master! What is this I hear? What race Are these, who seem so overcome with woe?" He thus to me: "This miserable fate Suffer the wretched souls of those, who liv'd Without or
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