Here the Nine Circles

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Love, which in gentlest hearts will soonest bloom
seized my lover with passion for that sweet body
from which I was torn unshriven to my doom.
Love, which permits no loved one not to love,
took me so strongly with delight in him
that we are one in Hell, as we were above.
Love led us to one death. In the depths of Hell
Caïna waits for him who took our lives."
This was the piteous tale they stopped to tell

... But to that second circle of sad hell,
Where 'mid the gust, the whirlwind, and the flaw
Of rain and hail-stones, lovers need not tell
Their sorrows. Pale were the sweet lips I saw,
Pale were the lips I kiss'd, and fair the form
I floated with, about that melancholy storm.

Here the nine circles
Dante did brave
For traitorous acts
True love was slain
Limbo, Lust, Glutton, Greed
Anger, Heresy, Violence and Fraud
Treacherous acts
True loves soul claimed

Here, too, I saw a nation of lost souls,
far more than were above: they strained their chests
against enormous weights, and with mad howls
rolled them at one another. Then in haste
they rolled them back, one party shouting out:
"Why do you hoard?" and the other: "Why do you waste

'Brothers,' I said, 'o you, who having crossed
a hundred thousand dangers, reach the west,
to this brief waking-time that still is left
unto your senses, you must not deny
experience of that which lies beyond
the sun, and of the world that is unpeopled.
Consider well the seed that gave you birth:
you were not made to live your lives as brutes,
but to be followers of worth and knowledge.

Here the nine circles
Dante did brave
For traitorous acts
True love was slain
Limbo, Lust, Glutton, Greed
Anger, Heresy, Violence and Fraud
Treacherous acts
True loves soul claimed

... he had three faces: one in front blood red;
and then another two that, just above
the midpoint of each shoulder, joined the first;
and at the crown, all three were reattached;
the right looked somewhat yellow, somewhat white;
the left in its appearance was like those
who come from where the Nile, descending, flows.

Here the nine circles
Dante did brave
For traitorous acts
True love was slain
Limbo, Lust, Glutton, Greed
Anger, Heresy, Violence and Fraud
Treacherous acts
True loves soul claimed

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