Inferno
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Alighieri, Dante
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The Divine Comedy
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Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
Which in the very thought renews the fear.

So bitter is it, death is little more;
But of the good to treat, which there I found,
Speak will I of the other things I saw there.

I cannot well repeat how there I entered,
So full was I of slumber at the moment
In which I had abandoned the true way.

But after I had reached a mountain's foot,
At that point where the valley terminated,
Which had with consternation pierced my heart,

Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders,
Vested already with that planet's rays
Which leadeth others right by every road.

Then was the fear a little quieted
That in my heart's lake had endured throughout
The night, which I had passed so piteously.

And even as he, who, with distressful breath,

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Street Date:
8/23/2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781412186124
Lexile measure:
1120

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    I found myself within a forest dark,
    For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

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    What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
    Which in the very thought renews the fear.

    So bitter is it, death is little more;
    But of the good to treat, which there I found,
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    So full was I of slumber at the moment
    In which I had abandoned the true way.

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    At that point where the valley terminated,
    Which had with consternation pierced my heart,

    Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders,
    Vested already with that planet's rays
    Which leadeth others right by every road.

    Then was the fear a little quieted
    That in my heart's lake had endured throughout
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    And even as he, who, with distressful breath,

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    I found myself within a forest dark,
    For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

    Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
    What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
    Which in the very thought renews the fear.

    So bitter is it, death is little more;
    But of the good to treat, which there I found,
    Speak will I of the other things I saw there.

    I cannot well repeat how there I entered,
    So full was I of slumber at the moment
    In which I had abandoned the true way.

    But after I had reached a mountain's foot,
    At that point where the valley terminated,
    Which had with consternation pierced my heart,

    Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders,
    Vested already with that planet's rays
    Which leadeth others right by every road.

    Then was the fear a little quieted
    That in my heart's lake had endured throughout
    The night, which I had passed so...

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