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Du monde des rêves au nouvel enfer de Dante

Du monde des rêves au nouvel enfer de Dante « And now begin the dolesome notes to grow           Audible unto me; now am I come           There where much lamentation strikes upon me. « I came into a place mute of all light,           Which bellows as the sea does in a tempest,           If by opposing winds ‘t is combated. « The infernal hurricane that never rests           Hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine;           Whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them. « When they arrive before the precipice,           There are the shrieks, the plaints, and the laments,           There they blaspheme the puissance divine. « I understood that unto such a torment           The carnal malefactors were condemned,           Who reason subjugate to appetite. « And as the wings of starlings bear them on           In the cold season in large band and full,           So doth the blast the spirits maledict; « It hither, thither, downward, upward, drives them;           No ho