The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . ads down to the seventh circle. Upon the utmost verge of a high bank, By craggy rocks environed round, we came. Where woes beneath, more cruel yet, were stowed: And here, to shun the horrible excess Of fetid exhalation upward cast From the profound abyss, behind the lid Of a great monument we stood retired. Whereon this scroll I marked : I have in charge Pope Anastasius, whom Photinus drew From the right path.—Ere our descent, behores 10 36 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xi We make delay, that somewhat first the sense,To the dire br
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . ads down to the seventh circle. Upon the utmost verge of a high bank, By craggy rocks environed round, we came. Where woes beneath, more cruel yet, were stowed: And here, to shun the horrible excess Of fetid exhalation upward cast From the profound abyss, behind the lid Of a great monument we stood retired. Whereon this scroll I marked : I have in charge Pope Anastasius, whom Photinus drew From the right path.—Ere our descent, behores 10 36 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xi We make delay, that somewhat first the sense,To the dire breath accustomed, afterwardRegard it not. My master thus ; to whomAnswering I spake : Some compensation the time pass not wholly lost. He then : Lo ! how my thoughts een to thy wishes son ! within these rocks, he thus began^ Are three close circles in gradation these which now thou leavest. Each one is fullOf spirits accursed ; but that the sight aloneHereafter may suffice thee, listen howAnd for what cause in durance they abide. 20. * Of all malicious act abhorred in end is injury; and all such endEither by force or fraud works others fraud, because of man peculiar evil,To God is more displeasing ; and fraudulent are therefore doomed to endureSeverer pang. The violent occupyAll the first circle ; and because, to persons are obnoxious, in three within other separate, is it God, his neighbour, and himself, by manForce may be offered ; to himself I say,And his possessions, as thou soon shalt hearAt full. Death, violent death, and painful woundsUpon his neighbour he inflicts ; and wastes, i 30 Lines 11-86] HELL 37 By devastation, pillage, and the flames. His substance. Slayers, and each one that smites In malice, plunderers, and all robbers, hence 40 The torment undergo of the first round, In different herds. Man can do violence To himself and his own blessings : and for this, , He, in th
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