Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
VIII. Selections from “The Divine Comedy”Inscription over the Gate
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)“T
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
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.”