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Through me you pass into the city of woe:

Through me you pass into eternal pain:

Through me among the people lost for aye.



Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:

To rear me was the task of power divine,

Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.



Before me things create were none, save things

Eternal, and eternal I endure.

All hope abandon ye who enter here.



Such characters in colour dim I mark'd

Over a portal's lofty arch inscrib'd:

Whereat I thus: Master, these words import.