The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . wers of Hautefort, that thou lookedst notThat way, ere he was gone.— 0 guide beloved !His violent death yet unavenged, said I, 30 By any, who are partners in his him contemptuous ; therefore, as I think,He passed me speechless by ; and, doing made me more compassionate his fate. So we discoursed to where the rock first showedThe other valley, had more light been there,Een to the lowest depth. Soon as we came 100 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xxix Oer the last cloister in the dismal roundsOf Malebolge, and the bro
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . wers of Hautefort, that thou lookedst notThat way, ere he was gone.— 0 guide beloved !His violent death yet unavenged, said I, 30 By any, who are partners in his him contemptuous ; therefore, as I think,He passed me speechless by ; and, doing made me more compassionate his fate. So we discoursed to where the rock first showedThe other valley, had more light been there,Een to the lowest depth. Soon as we came 100 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xxix Oer the last cloister in the dismal roundsOf Malebolge, and the brotherhoodWere to our view exposed, then many a dartOf sore lament assailed me, headed allWith points of thrilling pity, that I closedBoth ears against the volley with mine hands. As were the torment, if each lazar-houseOf Valdichiana, in the sultry timeTwixt July and September, with the isleSardinia and Maremmas pestilent fen,Had heaped their maladies all in one fossTogether ; such was here the torment: direThe stench, as issuing steams from festered limbs. 40. We on the utmost shore of the long rockDescended still to leftward. Then my sightWas livelier to explore the depth, whereinThe minister of the most mighty Lord,All-searching Justice, dooms to punishmentThe forgers noted on her dread record. More rueful was it not methinks to seeThe nation in Aegina droop, what timeEach living thing, een to the little fell, so full of malice was the air(And afterward, as bards of yore have told,The ancient people were restored anewFrom seed of emmets), than was here to see 60 The spirits, that languiUp-piled on many the murky lay,
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