: The Divine Comedy by Dante Illustrated Hell Volume 08 by Dante Alighieri Dor Gustave Illustrator Cary Henry Francis Translator - Hell Poetry; Epic poetry Italian Translations into English; Italian poetry To 1400 Translations into English

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THE VISION

HELL, PURGATORY, AND PARADISE

DANTE ALIGHIERI

TRANSLATED BY

OR THE INFERNO

Part 8

Cantos 23 - 28

IN silence and in solitude we went, One first, the other following his steps, As minor friars journeying on their road.

The present fray had turn'd my thoughts to muse Upon old Aesop's fable, where he told What fate unto the mouse and frog befell. For language hath not sounds more like in sense, Than are these chances, if the origin And end of each be heedfully compar'd. And as one thought bursts from another forth, So afterward from that another sprang, Which added doubly to my former fear. For thus I reason'd: "These through us have been So foil'd, with loss and mock'ry so complete, As needs must sting them sore. If anger then Be to their evil will conjoin'd, more fell They shall pursue us, than the savage hound Snatches the leveret, panting 'twixt his jaws."

Already I perceiv'd my hair stand all On end with terror, and look'd eager back.

"Teacher," I thus began, "if speedily Thyself and me thou hide not, much I dread Those evil talons. Even now behind They urge us: quick imagination works So forcibly, that I already feel them."

He answer'd: "Were I form'd of leaded glass, I should not sooner draw unto myself Thy outward image, than I now imprint That from within. This moment came thy thoughts Presented before mine, with similar act And count'nance similar, so that from both I one design have fram'd. If the right coast Incline so much, that we may thence descend Into the other chasm, we shall escape Secure from this imagined pursuit."

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