Inferno: Canto X
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Dante Alighieri and Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Thereon he hid himself; and I towards The ancient poet turned my steps, reflecting Upon that saying, which seemed hostile to me.
He moved along; and afterward thus going, He said to me, “Why art thou so bewildered?” And I in his inquiry satisfied him.
“Let memory preserve what thou hast heard Against thyself,” that Sage commanded me, “And now attend here;” and he raised his finger.
“When thou shalt be before the radiance sweet Of her whose beauteous eyes all things behold, From her thou’lt know the journey of thy life.”
Unto the left hand then he turned his feet; We left the wall, and went towards the middle, Along a path that strikes into a valley,
Which even up there unpleasant made its stench.