Intro (Canto III)

Lyrics

[Instrumental] "Through me the way is to the city of dolent; Through me the way is to eternal dole; Through me the way among the people lost Justice incited my sublime Creator; Created me divine Omnipotence The highest Wisdom, and the primal Love Before me there were no created things Only eterne, and I eternal last All hope abandon, ye who enter in!" These words in sombre colour I beheld Written upon the summit of a gate; Whence I: "Their sense is, Master, hard to me!" And he to me, as one experienced: "Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned All cowardice must needs be here extinct [?] And I: "O Master, what is so grievous is To these, that maketh them lament so sore" He answered: "I will tell thee very briefly These people have not any hope of death"