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DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 3, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through me you pass into the city of woe
Last Line: "all hope abandon, ye who enter here."
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante


"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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