The First Ten Cantos of the Inferno Author:Dante Alighieri Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Their lids were all suspended, whence arose Distressful groans and murmurs of lament, As though from wretches plunged in direst woes. " Master," said I; " Wha... more »t sinners here lie pent? What buried race thus mutter from the vaults ? " He answered thus: " Th' Arch-Heretics behold! Leaders of sects, with all who shared their faults. Here like with like, each with his kind inurned, In tortures more or less intense are cast:" So saying, to the right my master turned, Then 'twixt the tombs and lofty tow'rs we passed. chapter{Section 4INFEKNO. HELL. CANTO THE TENTH. THE BURNING TOMBS OF THE ARCH-HERETICS. FARINATA DEGLI UBERTI : CAVALCANTE DE1 CAVALCANTI. Now by a narrow path my master winds, Conducting me 'twixt those tormenting tombs And the town walls. " O thou, whose goodness finds A passage for me through these impious glooms ! Say, sov'reign Virtue! satisfy my hope; May man behold the wretches buried here In these dire sepulchres ?—the lids are ope— Suspended all—and none is watching near." To this he answered; " When they come at last Clothed in their now forsaken frames of clay, From dread Jehoshaphat—the judgment past— These flaming dens must all be barred for aye. " When in mid air the golden trump shall sound, To raise the nations under ground; Then in the valley of Jehoshaphat The judging God shall close the book of Fate ; And there the last assizes keep For those who wake, and those who sleep."—Dkyden. Here in their cemetery, on this side, With his whole sect is Epicurus pent, Who thought the spirit with its body died : Soon, therefore, thy desire shall be content— Ay, and the secret wish thou hid'st from me:"— " Good guide," I said; " I only veil my heart, Lest of mine utterance I appear too free: Thyself my...« less