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DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 3 by DANTE ALIGHIERI

First Line: THROUGH ME YOU PASS INTO THE CITY OF WOE
Last Line: "ALL HOPE ABANDON, YE WHO ENTER HERE."

"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,
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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