Adverse their lot who died through perjury;

For they can claim revision of their cause

By eternal justice, if not man’s laws.

Minos holds his high Court; sifts hearts and lives;

A mute jury through Urns its verdict gives.

Acquittal will not breath of life restore;

But the appellant shuns his fellow Shades no more.

In the third Circle a sad folk abide,

Who go always wondering why they died.

Their hands are wet and red with blood they spilt;