All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Hell. Canto iii. Line 9.

The wretched souls of those who lived

Without or praise or blame.

Hell. Canto iii. Line 34.

No greater grief than to remember days

Of joy when misery is at hand.[769:1]

Hell. Canto v. Line 121.

Footnotes

[769:1] See Longfellow, page [618].