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Anonymous Mon Apr 15 05:19:54 2013 No.3660303 [DELETED]

In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct way was lost. It is a hard thing to speak of, how wild, harsh and impenetrable that wood was, so that thinking of it recreates the fear. It is scarcely less bitter than death: but, in order to tell of the good that I found there, I must tell of the other things I saw there.

I cannot rightly say how I entered it. I was so full of sleep, at that point where I abandoned the true way. But when I reached the foot of a hill, where the valley, that had pierced my heart with fear, came to an end, I looked up and saw its shoulders brightened with the rays of that sun that leads men rightly on every road. Then the fear, that had settled in the lake of my heart, through the night that I had spent so miserably, became a little calmer. And as a man, who, with panting breath, has escaped from the deep sea to the shore, turns back towards the perilous waters and stares, so my mind, still fugitive, turned back to see that pass again, that no living person ever left.

After I had rested my tired body a while, I made my way again over empty ground, always bearing upwards to the right. And, behold, almost at the start of the slope, a light swift leopard with spotted coat. It would not turn from before my face, and so obstructed my path, that I often turned, in order to return.

The time was at the beginning of the morning, and the sun was mounting up with all those stars, that were with him when Divine Love first moved all delightful things, so that the hour of day, and the sweet season, gave me fair hopes of that creature with the bright pelt. But not so fair that I could avoid fear at the sight of a lion, that appeared, and seemed to come at me, with raised head and rabid hunger, so that it seemed the air itself was afraid; and a she-wolf that looked full of

Can lit Name this poem

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 05:29:53 2013 No.3660315 Shitty poem #xyz

>>	Jules Mon Apr 15 05:41:53 2013 No.3660332 >>3660303 nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 05:55:53 2013 No.3660341 >>3660315 LOL LOVE the Divine Comedy good show my dear Anon you on the other hand man who hates poetry read the divine comedy or Beowulf or even Gilgamesh

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 07:00:53 2013 No.3660406 >selva oscura >divina commedia

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 08:50:53 2013 No.3660544 I see you too watched Mad Men

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 11:34:53 2013 No.3660783 Le wood

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 12:25:53 2013 No.3660877 Divine Comedy, everyone should know this

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