Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | VIII. Selections from “The Divine Comedy” | | Inscription over the Gate | | Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) |
| | Translated by Henry Francis Cary Selections from “The Divine Comedy” Hell: Canto III.
“THROUGH me you pass into the city of woe: | |
| Through me you pass into eternal pain: | |
| Through me among the people lost for aye. | |
| Justice the founder of my fabric moved: | |
| To rear me was the task of power divine, | 5 |
| Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. | |
| Before me things create were none, save things | |
| Eternal, and eternal I endure. | |
| All hope abandon, ye who enter here.” | | | | |
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