lirik lagu richard mitchley - inferno (canto 3) by dante
the gateway to the city of doom. through me
the entrance to the everlasting pain
the gateway of the lost. the eternal three
justice impelled to build me. here ye see
wisdom supreme at work, and primal power
and love supernal in their dawnless day
ere from their thought creation rose in flower
eternal first were all things fixed as they
of increate power infinite formed am i
that deathless as themselves i do not die
justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear
all hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here
this scroll in gloom above the gate i read
and found it fearful. “master, hard,” i said
“this saying to me.” and he, as one that long
was customed, answered, “no distrust must wrong
its maker, nor thy cowarder mood resume
if here ye enter. this the place of doom
i told thee, where the lost in darkness dwell
here, by themselves divorced from light, they fell
and are as ye shall see them.” here he lent
a hand to draw me through the gate, and bent
a glance upon my fear so confident
that i, too nearly to my former dread
returned, through all my heart was comforted
and downward to the secret things we went
downward to night, but not of moon and cloud
not night with all its stars, as night we know
but burdened with an ocean~weight of woe
the darkness closed us
sighs, and wailings loud
outcries perpetual of recruited pain
sounds of strange tongues, and angers that remain
vengeless for ever, the thick and clamorous crowd
of discords pressed, that needs i wept to hear
first hearing. there, with reach of hands anear
and voices passion~ho~rs~, or shrilled with fright
the tumult of the everlasting night
as sand that dances in continual wind
turns on itself for ever
and i, my head
begirt with movements, and my ears bedinned
with outcries round me, to my leader said
“master, what hear i? who so overborne
with woes are these?”
he answered, “these be they
that praiseless lived and blameless. now the scorn
of height and depth alike, abortions drear;
cast with those abject angels whose delay
to join rebellion, or their lord defend
waiting their proved advantage, flung them here. ~
chased forth from heaven, lest else its beauties end
the pure perfection of their stainless claim
out~herded from the shining gate they came
where the deep h~lls refused them, lest the lost
boast something baser than themselves.”
and i
“master, what grievance hath their failure cost
that through the lamentable dark they cry?”
he answered, “briefly at a thing not worth
we glance, and pass forgetful. hope in death
they have not. memory of them on the earth
where once they lived remains not. nor the breath
of justice shall condemn, nor mercy plead
but all alike disdain them. that they know
themselves so mean beneath aught else constrains
the envious outcries that too long ye heed
move past, but speak not.”
then i looked, and
lo
were souls in ceaseless and unnumbered trains
that past me whirled unending, vainly led
nowhither, in useless and unpausing haste
a fluttering ensign all their guide, they chased
themselves for ever. i had not thought the dead
the whole world’s dead, so many as these. i saw
the shadow of him elect to peter’s seat
who made the great refusal, and the law
the unswerving law that left them this retreat
to seal the abortion of their lives, became
illumined to me, and themselves i knew
to god and all his foes the futile crew
how hateful in their everlasting shame
i saw these victims of continued death
~ for lived they never ~ were naked all, and loud
around them closed a never~ceasing cloud
of h~rnets and great wasps, that buzzed and clung
~ weak pain for weaklings meet, ~ and where they stung
blood from their faces streamed, with sobbing breath
and all the ground beneath with tears and blood
was drenched, and crawling in that loathsome mud
there were great worms that drank it
gladly
thence
i gazed far forward. dark and wide the flood
that flowed before us. on the nearer shore
were people waiting. “master, show me whence
these came, and who they be, and passing hence
where go they? wherefore wait they there content
~ the faint light shows it, ~ for their transit o’er
the unbridged abyss?”
he answered, “when we stand
together, waiting on the joyless strand
in all it shall be told thee.” if he meant
reproof i know not, but with shame i bent
my downward eyes, and no more spake until
the bank we reached, and on the stream beheld
a bark ply toward us
of exceeding eld
and h~~ry showed the steersman, screaming shrill
with horrid glee the while he neared us, “woe
to ye, depraved! ~ is here no heaven, but ill
the place where i shall herd ye. ice and fire
and darkness are the wages of their hire
who serve unceasing here ~ but thou that there
dost wait though live, depart ye. yea, forbear!
a different passage and a lighter fare
is destined thine.”
but here my guide replied
“nay, charon, cease; or to thy grief ye chide
it there is willed, where that is willed shall be
that ye shall pass him to the further side
nor question more.”
the fleecy cheeks thereat
blown with fierce speech before, were drawn and flat
and his flame~circled eyes subdued, to hear
that mandate given. but those of whom he spake
in bitter glee, with naked limbs ashake
and chattering t~~th received it. seemed that then
they first were conscious where they came, and fear
abject and frightful shook them; curses burst
in clamorous discords forth; the race of men
their parents, and their god, the place, the time
of their conceptions and their births, accursed
alike they called, blaspheming heaven. but yet
slow steps toward the waiting bark they set
with terrible wailing while they moved. and so
they came reluctant to the shore of woe
that waits for all who fear not god, and not
them only
then the demon charon rose
to herd them in, with eyes that furnace~hot
glowed at the task, and lifted oar to smite
who lingered
as the leaves, when autumn shows
one after one descending, leave the bough
or doves come downward to the call, so now
the evil seed of adam to endless night
as charon signalled, from the shore’s bleak height
cast themselves downward to the bark. the brown
and bitter flood received them, and while they passed
were others gathering, patient as the last
not conscious of their nearing doom
“my son,”
~ replied my guide the unspoken thought ~ “is none
beneath god’s wrath who dies in field or town
or earth’s wide sp~ce, or whom the waters drown
but here he cometh at last, and that so spurred
by justice, that his fear, as those ye heard
impels him forward like desire. is not
one spirit of all to reach the fatal spot
that god’s love holdeth, and hence, if char
chide
ye well may take it. ~ raise thy heart, for now
constrained of heaven, he must thy course allow.”
yet how i passed i know not. for the ground
trembled that heard him, and a fearful sound
of issuing wind arose, and blood~red light
broke from beneath our feet, and sense and sight
left me. the memory with cold sweat once more
reminds me of the sudden~crimsoned night
as sank i senseless by the dreadful shore
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