Cosmic Edges

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Cosmic Edges
True May

True May

Inferno Canto 34

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Emmalea Russo
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My guide and I came on that hidden road
to make our way back into the bright world;
and with no care for any rest, we climbed—

he first, I following—until I saw,
through a round opening, some of those things
of beauty Heaven bears. It was from there
that we emerged, to see—once more—

(Inferno, Canto 34, tr. Mandelbaum)

Virgil and Dante emerge from Hell, Inferno Canto 34.

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