The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . The subject of my song, who came from Troy, 7° When the flames preyed on Iliums haughty thou, say wherefore to such perils pastReturnst thou ? wherefore not this pleasant mountAscendest, cause and source of all delight ? And art thou then that Virgil, that which such copious floods of eloquenceHave issued ? I with front abashed replied. < * Glory and light of all the tuneful train ! I Lines 30-106] HELL May it avail me, that I long with zealHave sought thy volume, and with love immenseHave conned i
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . The subject of my song, who came from Troy, 7° When the flames preyed on Iliums haughty thou, say wherefore to such perils pastReturnst thou ? wherefore not this pleasant mountAscendest, cause and source of all delight ? And art thou then that Virgil, that which such copious floods of eloquenceHave issued ? I with front abashed replied. < * Glory and light of all the tuneful train ! I Lines 30-106] HELL May it avail me, that I long with zealHave sought thy volume, and with love immenseHave conned it oer. My master thou, and guideThou he from whom alone I have derivedThat style, which for its beauty into fameExalts me. See the beast, from whom I save me from her, thou illustrious sage !For eivery vein and pulse throughout my frameShe hath made tremble. He, soon as he sawThat I was weeping, answered, * Thou must needsAnother way pursue, if thou wouldst scapeFrom out that savage wilderness. This whom thou criest, her way will suffer none 90. To pass, and no less hindrance makes than death: So bad and so accursed is her kind, That never sated is her ravenous will, Still after food more craving than before. To many an animal in wedlock vile She fastens, and shall yet to many more, Until that greyhound come, who shall destroy Her with sharp pain. He will not life support By earth nor its base metals, but by love. Wisdom, and virtue ; and his land shall be The land twixt either Feltro. In his might Shall safety to Italias plains arise. For whose fair realm, Camilla, virgin pure, Nisus, Euryalus, and Turnus fell. He, with incessant chase, through every town 100 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto i Shall worry, until he to hell at lengthRestore her, thence by envy first let , for thy profit pondering, now deviseThat thou mayst follow me; and I, thy guide, no Will lead thee hence through an eternal thou shalt hear despairing shrieks, and seeSpirits of o
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