Оценить:
 Рейтинг: 0

Inferno

Год написания книги
2019
<< 1 ... 28 29 30 31 32
На страницу:
32 из 32
Настройки чтения
Размер шрифта
Высота строк
Поля

The Minotaur beheld I do the like;

And he, the wary, cried: “Run to the passage;

While he wroth, ’tis well thou shouldst descend.”

Thus down we took our way o’er that discharge

Of stones, which oftentimes did move themselves

Beneath my feet, from the unwonted burden.

Thoughtful I went; and he said: “Thou art thinking

Perhaps upon this ruin, which is guarded

By that brute anger which just now I quenched.

Now will I have thee know, the other time

I here descended to the nether Hell,

This precipice had not yet fallen down.

But truly, if I well discern, a little

Before His coming who the mighty spoil

Bore off from Dis, in the supernal circle,

Upon all sides the deep and loathsome valley

Trembled so, that I thought the Universe

Was thrilled with love, by which there are who think

The world ofttimes converted into chaos;

And at that moment this primeval crag

Both here and elsewhere made such overthrow.

But fix thine eyes below; for draweth near

The river of blood, within which boiling is

Whoe’er by violence doth injure others.”

O blind cupidity, O wrath insane,

That spurs us onward so in our short life,

And in the eternal then so badly steeps us!

I saw an ample moat bent like a bow,

As one which all the plain encompasses,

Conformable to what my Guide had said.

And between this and the embankment’s foot

Centaurs in file were running, armed with arrows,

As in the world they used the chase to follow.

Beholding us descend, each one stood still,

And from the squadron three detached themselves,

With bows and arrows in advance selected;


Вы ознакомились с фрагментом книги.
Приобретайте полный текст книги у нашего партнера:
<< 1 ... 28 29 30 31 32
На страницу:
32 из 32