INFERNO 33, 22-75.
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Translated by Medwin and corrected by Shelley.] Now had the loophole of that dungeon, stillWhich bears the name of Famine's Tower from me,And where 'tis fit that many another will Be doomed to linger in captivity,Shown through its narrow opening in my cell _5'Moon after moon slow waning', when a sleep, 'That of the future burst the veil, in dreamVisited me. It was a slumber deepAnd evil; for I saw, or I did seem' To see, 'that' tyrant Lord his revels keep _10The leader of the cruel hunt to them,Chasing the wolf and wolf-cubs up the steep Ascent, that from 'the Pisan is the screen'Of 'Lucca'; with him Gualandi came,Sismondi, and Lanfranchi, 'bloodhounds lean, _15
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