The Doomed Souls embarking to cross the Acheron View Annotations Image Gallery
33	What folk is this, which seems by pain so vanquished?
34	And he to me: This miserable mode
35	Maintain the melancholy souls of those
36	Who lived withouten infamy or praise.
37	Commingled are they with that caitiff choir
38	Of Angels, who have not rebellious been,
39	Nor faithful were to God, but were for self.
40	The heavens expelled them, not to be less fair;
41	Nor them the nethermore abyss receives,
42	For glory none the damned would have from them.
43	And I: O Master, what so grievous is
44	To these, that maketh them lament so sore?
45	He answered: I will tell thee very briefly.
46	These have no longer any hope of death;
47	And this blind life of theirs is so debased,
48	They envious are of every other fate.

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