Midway on our life's journey, I found myslef
in dark woods, the right road lost. To tell       about these woods is hard - so tangled and rough,

And savage thinking of it now, I feel
the old fear stirring: death is hardly more
bitter. And yet, to treat the good I found
there as well.

    I'll tell you what I saw...

           Dante's inferno. Trans. Robert Pinsky



                      
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