Do you not hear the anguish in his cry?
(Inferno Canto 02)
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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.Dante Alighieri
Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.
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Honour the greatest poet.
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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
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They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above,
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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
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