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Dante for Today

Poetry Off the Shelf

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The City of Woe - Welcome to Everlasting Sadness

Dante and virgil have just arrived at the gates of hell. Above those gates there is an inscription: Welcome to everlasting sadness. The starless air was echoing with countless sighs, horrific cries, extended loud laments. They wish to die, but cannot. Their blind lives are so empty,. Without reprieve, they envy the nothing that an ending would be. Mercy turns her back. Justice disdains them. Look and then let's go.

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