Intro (Canto III) from Innocence & Instinct

This whisper I could hear raw. The words are taken straight from Canto III of Dante's Inferno (by Dante Alighieri). View the whole poem plus the rest of the collection at http://www.online-literature.com/dante/inferno/3/

The words of RED are in red! :D

1-15Through me the way is to the city Dolent;
Through me is to eternal dole;
Through me the way among the people lost.

Justice incited my sublime Creator;
Created me divine Omnipotence,
The highest Wisdom and the primal Love.

Before me there were no created things,
Only eterne, and I eternal last.
All hope abandon, ye who enter in!"

These words in sombre colour I beheld
Written upon the summit of a gate;
Whence I: "Their sense is, Master, hard to me!"

And he to me, as one experienced:
"Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned,

All cowardice must needs be here extinct. (0:54:50)

26-30 (0:56:00) Accents of anger, words of agony,
And voices high and hoarse, with sound of hands,

Made up a tumult that goes whirling over
For ever in that air for ever black,
Even as the sand doth, when the whirlwind breathes. (1:09:00)

43-45 is repeated, starting at 1:09:00 and again at 1:18:00

And I: "O Master, what so grievous is
To these, that maketh them lament so sore?"
He answered: "I will tell thee very briefly.

THESE PEOPLE HAVE NOT ANY HOPE OF DEATH