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Therefore I think and judge it for thy best
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Thou follow me, and I will be thy guide,
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And lead thee hence through the eternal place,
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Where thou shalt hear the desperate lamentations,
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Shalt see the ancient spirits disconsolate,
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Who cry out each one for the second death;
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And thou shalt see those who contented are
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Within the fire, because they hope to come,
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Whene'er it may be, to the blessed people;
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To whom, then, if thou wishest to ascend,
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A soul shall be for that than I more worthy;
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With her at my departure I will leave thee;
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Because that Emperor, who reigns above,
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In that I was rebellious to his law,
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Wills that through me none come into his city.
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governs evervwhere and there he reigns:
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There is his city and his lofty throne;
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O happy he whom thereto he elects!
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And I to him: Poet, I thee entreat,
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By that same God whom thou didst never know,
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So that I may escape this woe and worse,
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Thou wouldst conduct me there where thou hast said,
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That I may see the portal of Saint Peter,
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And those thou makest so disconsolable.
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Then he moved on, and I behind him followed.
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