and continues


Then I looked up, and saw the morning rays
     Mantle its shoulder from that planet bright
     Which guides men's feet aright on all their ways;

And this a little quieted the affright
     That lurking in my bosom's lake had lain
     Through the long horror of that piteous night.

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Cantica I (L'INFERNO)
Translated by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1949

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