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Inferno	Canto I	1	1	Midway upon the journey of our life
Inferno	Canto I	1	2	I found myself within a forest dark,
Inferno	Canto I	1	3	For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
Inferno	Canto I	2	4	Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
Inferno	Canto I	2	5	What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
Inferno	Canto I	2	6	Which in the very thought renews the fear.
Inferno	Canto I	3	7	So bitter is it, death is little more;
Inferno	Canto I	3	8	But of the good to treat, which there I found,
Inferno	Canto I	3	9	Speak will I of the other things I saw there.
Inferno	Canto I	4	10	I cannot well repeat how there I entered,
Inferno	Canto I	4	11	So full was I of slumber at the moment
Inferno	Canto I	4	12	In which I had abandoned the true way.
Inferno	Canto I	5	13	But after I had reached a mountain’s foot,
Inferno	Canto I	5	14	At that point where the valley terminated,
Inferno	Canto I	5	15	Which had with consternation pierced my heart,
Inferno	Canto I	6	16	Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders,
Inferno	Canto I	6	17	Vested already with that planet’s rays
Inferno	Canto I	6	18	Which leadeth others right by every road.
Inferno	Canto I	7	19	Then was the fear a little quieted
Inferno	Canto I	7	20	That in my heart’s lake had endured throughout
Inferno	Canto I	7	21	The night, which I had passed so piteously.
Inferno	Canto I	8	22	And even as he, who, with distressful breath,
Inferno	Canto I	8	23	Forth issued from the sea upon the shore,
Inferno	Canto I	8	24	Turns to the water perilous and gazes;
Inferno	Canto I	9	25	So did my soul, that still was fleeing onward,
Inferno	Canto I	9	26	Turn itself back to re-behold the pass
Inferno	Canto I	9	27	Which never yet a living person left.
Inferno	Canto I	10	28	After my weary body I had rested,
Inferno	Canto I	10	29	The way resumed I on the desert slope,
Inferno	Canto I	10	30	So that the firm foot ever was the lower.
Inferno	Canto I	11	31	And lo! almost where the ascent began,
Inferno	Canto I	11	32	A panther light and swift exceedingly,
Inferno	Canto I	11	33	Which with a spotted skin was covered o’er!
Inferno	Canto I	12	34	And never moved she from before my face,
Inferno	Canto I	12	35	Nay, rather did impede so much my way,
Inferno	Canto I	12	36	That many times I to return had turned.
Inferno	Canto I	13	37	The time was the beginning of the morning,
Inferno	Canto I	13	38	And up the sun was mounting with those stars
Inferno	Canto I	13	39	That with him were, what time the Love Divine
Inferno	Canto I	14	40	At first in motion set those beauteous things;
Inferno	Canto I	14	41	So were to me occasion of good hope,
Inferno	Canto I	14	42	The variegated skin of that wild beast,
Inferno	Canto I	15	43	The hour of time, and the delicious season;
Inferno	Canto I	15	44	But not so much, that did not give me fear
Inferno	Canto I	15	45	A lion’s aspect which appeared to me.
Inferno	Canto I	16	46	He seemed as if against me he were coming
Inferno	Canto I	16	47	With head uplifted, and with ravenous hunger,
Inferno	Canto I	16	48	So that it seemed the air was afraid of him;
Inferno	Canto I	17	49	And a she-wolf, that with all hungerings
Inferno	Canto I	17	50	Seemed to be laden in her meagreness,
Inferno	Canto I	17	51	And many folk has caused to live forlorn!
Inferno	Canto I	18	52	She brought upon me so much heaviness,
Inferno	Canto I	18	53	With the affright that from her aspect came,
Inferno	Canto I	18	54	That I the hope relinquished of the height.
Inferno	Canto I	19	55	And as he is who willingly acquires,
Inferno	Canto I	19	56	And the time comes that causes him to lose,
Inferno	Canto I	19	57	Who weeps in all his thoughts and is despondent,
Inferno	Canto I	20	58	E’en such made me that beast withouten peace,
Inferno	Canto I	20	59	Which, coming on against me by degrees
Inferno	Canto I	20	60	Thrust me back thither where the sun is silent.
Inferno	Canto I	21	61	While I was rushing downward to the lowland,
Inferno	Canto I	21	62	Before mine eyes did one present himself,
Inferno	Canto I	21	63	Who seemed from long-continued silence hoarse.
Inferno	Canto I	22	64	When I beheld him in the desert vast,
Inferno	Canto I	22	65	“Have pity on me,” unto him I cried,
Inferno	Canto I	22	66	“Whiche’er thou art, or shade or real man!”
Inferno	Canto I	23	67	He answered me: “Not man; man once I was,
Inferno	Canto I	23	68	And both my parents were of Lombardy,
Inferno	Canto I	23	69	And Mantuans by country both of them.
Inferno	Canto I	24	70	‘Sub Julio’ was I born, though it was late,
Inferno	Canto I	24	71	And lived at Rome under the good Augustus,
Inferno	Canto I	24	72	During the time of false and lying gods.
Inferno	Canto I	25	73	A poet was I, and I sang that just
Inferno	Canto I	25	74	Son of Anchises, who came forth from Troy,
Inferno	Canto I	25	75	After that Ilion the superb was burned.
Inferno	Canto I	26	76	But thou, why goest thou back to such annoyance?
Inferno	Canto I	26	77	Why climb’st thou not the Mount Delectable,
Inferno	Canto I	26	78	Which is the source and cause of every joy?”
Inferno	Canto I	27	79	“Now, art thou that Virgilius and that fountain
Inferno	Canto I	27	80	Which spreads abroad so wide a river of speech?”
Inferno	Canto I	27	81	I made response to him with bashful forehead.
Inferno	Canto I	28	82	“O, of the other poets honour and light,
Inferno	Canto I	28	83	Avail me the long study and great love
Inferno	Canto I	28	84	That have impelled me to explore thy volume!
Inferno	Canto I	29	85	Thou art my master, and my author thou,
Inferno	Canto I	29	86	Thou art alone the one from whom I took
Inferno	Canto I	29	87	The beautiful style that has done honour to me.
Inferno	Canto I	30	88	Behold the beast, for which I have turned back;
Inferno	Canto I	30	89	Do thou protect me from her, famous Sage,
Inferno	Canto I	30	90	For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.”
Inferno	Canto I	31	91	“Thee it behoves to take another road,”
Inferno	Canto I	31	92	Responded he, when he beheld me weeping,
Inferno	Canto I	31	93	“If from this savage place thou wouldst escape;
Inferno	Canto I	32	94	Because this beast, at which thou criest out,
Inferno	Canto I	32	95	Suffers not any one to pass her way,
Inferno	Canto I	32	96	But so doth harass him, that she destroys him;
Inferno	Canto I	33	97	And has a nature so malign and ruthless,
Inferno	Canto I	33	98	That never doth she glut her greedy will,
Inferno	Canto I	33	99	And after food is hungrier than before.
Inferno	Canto I	34	100	Many the animals with whom she weds,

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