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All hope abandon, ye who enter in!"
[/SIZE][SIZE=+1]These words in sombre colour I beheld [/SIZE][SIZE=+1]
Written upon the summit of a gate;
Whence I: "Their sense is, Master, hard to me!"
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[SIZE=+1]And he to me, as one experienced: [/SIZE][SIZE=+1]
"Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned,
All cowardice must needs be here extinct.
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[SIZE=+1]We to the place have come, where I have told thee [/SIZE][SIZE=+1]
Thou shalt behold the people dolorous
Who have foregone the good of intellect."
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[SIZE=+1]And after he had laid his hand on mine [/SIZE][SIZE=+1]
With joyful mien, whence I was comforted,
He led me in among the secret things.
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[SIZE=+1]There sighs, complaints, and ululations loud
Resounded through the air without a star,
Whence I, at the beginning, wept thereat. [/SIZE]