When I had journeyed half our life’s way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray.
Ah, it is hard to speak of what it was,
the savage forest, dense and difficult,
which even in recall renews my fear:
so bitter – death is hardly more severe!
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray.
Ah, it is hard to speak of what it was,
the savage forest, dense and difficult,
which even in recall renews my fear:
so bitter – death is hardly more severe!
Dante, Inferno (circa. 1300 AD)[1]
[1] See
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, tr. Maurice
Mandelbaum (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf/Everyman’s Library, 1995), p. 59. There are three Cantos to The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
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