Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from La Divina Commedia: Di Dante Alighieri
Inferno.
Canto I.
The Proem - The Lost Path - The Wrong Road - The Safe Guide.
Now half way through the journey of our life,
In a dark wood I to myself came back;
For lost had been the path of uprightness.
And ah! as hard indeed it is to tell
How savage, rough and dense that forest was,
Whereof the very thought renews the dread,
So bitter 'tis, that death is hardly more;
But to set forth the good that I found there,
I'll tell what other things I there beheld.
I cannot well recall how there I came,
So sunk was I in sleep the moment when
I at the first abandoned the true way;
But when I'd reached the bottom of a hill,
The point where to an end the valley came,
Which had with terror pierced me to the heart,
Upward I looked, and saw its shoulders now
Clothed with the garment of that planet's rays,
Which guides all others straight on every road.
Then was the fear a little quieted,
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