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Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete

Inferno: Canto IX

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Dante Alighieri and Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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All of their coverings uplifted were, And from them issued forth such dire laments, Sooth seemed they of the wretched and tormented.
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And I: “My Master, what are all those people Who, having sepulture within those tombs, Make themselves audible by doleful sighs?”
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And he to me: “Here are the Heresiarchs, With their disciples of all sects, and much More than thou thinkest laden are the tombs.
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Here like together with its like is buried; And more and less the monuments are heated.” And when he to the right had turned, we passed
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Between the torments and high parapets.

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Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete, Project Gutenberg eBook #1004

Inferno: Canto VIII Inferno: Canto X