Inferno: Canto XX
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Dante Alighieri and Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Behold the wretched ones, who left the needle, The spool and rock, and made them fortune-tellers; They wrought their magic spells with herb and image.
But come now, for already holds the confines Of both the hemispheres, and under Seville Touches the ocean-wave, Cain and the thorns,
And yesternight the moon was round already; Thou shouldst remember well it did not harm thee From time to time within the forest deep.”
Thus spake he to me, and we walked the while.