THE DIVINE COMEDY: Inferno, Purgatorio & Paradiso (3 Classic Translations in One Edition). Dante AlighieriЧитать онлайн книгу.

       That point, to which from ev'ry part is dragg'd

       All heavy substance. Thou art now arriv'd

       Under the hemisphere opposed to that,

       Which the great continent doth overspread,

       And underneath whose canopy expir'd

       The Man, that was born sinless, and so liv'd.

       Thy feet are planted on the smallest sphere,

       Whose other aspect is Judecca. Morn

       Here rises, when there evening sets: and he,

       Whose shaggy pile was scal'd, yet standeth fix'd,

       As at the first. On this part he fell down

       From heav'n; and th' earth, here prominent before,

       Through fear of him did veil her with the sea,

       And to our hemisphere retir'd. Perchance

       To shun him was the vacant space left here

       By what of firm land on this side appears,

       That sprang aloof." There is a place beneath,

       From Belzebub as distant, as extends

       The vaulted tomb, discover'd not by sight,

       But by the sound of brooklet, that descends

       This way along the hollow of a rock,

       Which, as it winds with no precipitous course,

       The wave hath eaten. By that hidden way

       My guide and I did enter, to return

       To the fair world: and heedless of repose

       We climbed, he first, I following his steps,

       Till on our view the beautiful lights of heav'n

       Dawn'd through a circular opening in the cave:

       Thus issuing we again beheld the stars.