The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . an old man, hoary white with , Woe to you, wicked spirits ! hope notEver to see the sky again. I come To take you to the other shore across, 80 Into eternal darkness, there to dwellIn fierce heat and in ice. And thou, who thereStandest, live spirit! get thee hence, and leaveThese who are dead. But soon as he beheldI left them not, By other way, said he, By other haven shalt thou come to shore. b3 10 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto iii Not by this passage ; thee a nimbler boat Must carry. Then to him thus spake my guide: Cha
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . an old man, hoary white with , Woe to you, wicked spirits ! hope notEver to see the sky again. I come To take you to the other shore across, 80 Into eternal darkness, there to dwellIn fierce heat and in ice. And thou, who thereStandest, live spirit! get thee hence, and leaveThese who are dead. But soon as he beheldI left them not, By other way, said he, By other haven shalt thou come to shore. b3 10 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto iii Not by this passage ; thee a nimbler boat Must carry. Then to him thus spake my guide: Charon ! thyself torment not: so tis willed, Where will and power are one : ask thou no more. 90 Straightway in silence fell the shaggy cheeksOf him, the boatman oer the livid Avhose eyes glared wheeling flames. MeanwhileThose spirits, faint and naked, colour changed,And gnashed their teeth, soon as the cruel wordsThey heard. God and their parents they blasphemed,The human kind, the place, the time, and seed,That did engender them and give them Then all together sorely wailing drewTo the cursed strand, that every man must passWho fears not God. Charon, demoniac eyes of burning coal, collects them , and each, that lingers, with his oarStrikes. As fall off the light autumnal leaves,One still another following, till the boughStrews all its honours on the earth beneath ;Een in like manner Adams evil broodCast themselves, one by one, down from the at a beck, as falcon at his call. Thus go they over through the umbered wave ;And ever they on the opposing bankBe landed, on this side another throngStill gathers. Son, thus spake the courteous guide,* Those who die subject to the wrath of God 100 no Canto IV] HELL 11 All here together come froni every chine, And to oerpass the river are not loath : For so heavens justice goads them on, that fear Is turned into desire. Hence neer hath passed Good spirit. If of thee Charon complain, Now ma
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