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Excerpt from The Divine Comedy, Vol. 1
Ah! Had I words to tell, if any could, The fierce harsh aspect-that wild forest wore, If I but think thereon my fear's renewed! So bitter is it, Death is hardly more; But to make plain the good I found, -'twere well To say what other fate I met before. How I came there, in truth I cannot tell; Sleep lay so heavy on me in that hour, That, dreaming, out of my true path I fell; But when above I saw the mountain tower, There where the valley ended whence had flowed The fear, which on my heart had set its power, I looked on high, and 10! Its shoulder glowed Already in the rays of that fair sun That guides men right, wherever lies their road. Then was the fear a little past and done, Which deep within my heart-springs had endured, That night, through which in sorrow I had won; And like a man, by chance from death secured, Who, panting, struggles from the sea to land, Then turns to view his peril, ill assured. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
