The Divine Comedy

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Independently Published, Jun 28, 2020 - Fiction - 410 pages
Midway upon the journey of our lifeI found myself within a forest dark, For the straight-forward pathway had beenAh me! how hard a thing it is to sayWhat was this forest savage, rough, and sternWhich in the very thought renews the fear.So bitter is it, death is little more;But of the good to treat, which there I founSpeak will I of the other things I saw there.I cannot well repeat how there I entered, So full was I of slumber at the momentIn which I had abandoned the true way.But after I had reached a mountain's foot, At that point wherethe valley terminated, Which had with consternation pierced my hUpward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders, Vested already with that planet's raysWhich leadeth others right by every

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