The Divine Comedy: Illustrations by Gustave Doré

 

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The darkening sky of the first night

Inferno, Canto 2: The darkening sky of the first night

Day was departing, and the embrowned air
Released the animals that are on earth
From their fatigues; and I the only one

Made myself ready to sustain the war,
Both of the way and likewise of the woe,
Which memory that errs not shall retrace.