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  Above the middle part of either shoulder;
  And they were joined together at the crest;

And the right…hand one seemed 'twixt white and yellow;
  The left was such to look upon as those
  Who come from where the Nile falls valley…ward。

Underneath each came forth two mighty wings;
  Such as befitting were so great a bird;
  Sails of the sea I never saw so large。

 No feathers had they; but as of a bat
  Their fashion was; and he was waving them;
  So that three winds proceeded forth therefrom。

Thereby Cocytus wholly was congealed。
  With six eyes did he weep; and down three chins
  Trickled the tear…drops and the bloody drivel。

At every mouth he with his teeth was crunching
  A sinner; in the manner of a brake;
  So that he three of them tormented thus。

To him in front the biting was as naught
  Unto the clawing; for sometimes the spine
  Utterly stripped of all the skin remained。

〃That soul up there which has the greatest pain;〃
  The Master said; 〃is Judas Iscariot;
  With head inside; he plies his legs without。

Of the two others; who head downward are;
  The one who hangs from the black jowl is Brutus;
  See how he writhes himself; and speaks no word。

And the other; who so stalwart seems; is Cassius。
  But night is reascending; and 'tis time
  That we depart; for we have seen the whole。〃

As seemed him good; I clasped him round the neck;
  And he the vantage seized of time and place;
  And when the wings were opened wide apart;

He laid fast hold upon the shaggy sides;
  From fell to fell descended downward then
  Between the thick hair and the frozen crust。

When we were come to where the thigh revolves
  Exactly on the thickness of the haunch;
  The Guide; with labour and with hard…drawn breath;

Turned round his head where he had had his legs;
  And grappled to the hair; as one who mounts;
  So that to Hell I thought we were returning。

〃Keep fast thy hold; for by such stairs as these;〃
  The Master said; panting as one fatigued;
  〃Must we perforce depart from so much evil。〃

Then through the opening of a rock he issued;
  And down upon the margin seated me;
  Then tow'rds me he outstretched his wary step。

I lifted up mine eyes and thought to see
  Lucifer in the same way I had left him;
  And I beheld him upward hold his legs。

And if I then became disquieted;
  Let stolid people think who do not see
  What the point is beyond which I had passed。

〃Rise up;〃 the Master said; 〃upon thy feet;
  The way is long; and difficult the road;
  And now the sun to middle…tierce returns。〃

It was not any palace corridor
  There where we were; but dungeon natural;
  With floor uneven and unease of light。

〃Ere from the abyss I tear myself away;
  My Master;〃 said I when I had arisen;
  〃To draw me from an error speak a little;

Where is the ice? and how is this one fixed
  Thus upside down? and how in such short time
  From eve to morn has the sun made his transit?〃

And he to me: 〃Thou still imaginest
  Thou art beyond the centre; where I grasped
  The hair of the fell worm; who mines the world。

That side thou wast; so long as I descended;
  When round I turned me; thou didst pass the point
  To which things heavy draw from every side;

And now beneath the hemisphere art come
  Opposite that which overhangs the vast
  Dry…land; and 'neath whose cope was put to death

The Man who without sin was born and lived。
  Thou hast thy feet upon the little sphere
  Which makes the other face of the Judecca。

Here it is morn when it is evening there;
  And he who with his hair a stairway made us
  Still fixed remaineth as he was before。

Upon this side he fell down out of heaven;
  And all the land; that whilom here emerged;
  For fear of him made of the sea a veil;

And came to our hemisphere; and peradventure
  To flee from him; what on this side appears
  Left the place vacant here; and back recoiled。〃

A place there is below; from Beelzebub
  As far receding as the tomb extends;
  Which not by sight is known; but by the sound

Of a small rivulet; that there descendeth
  Through chasm within the stone; which it has gnawed
  With course that winds about and slightly falls。

The Guide and I into that hidden road
  Now entered; to return to the bright world;
  And without care of having any rest

We mounted up; he first and I the second;
  Till I beheld through a round aperture
  Some of the beauteous things that Heaven doth bear;

Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars。


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