Abandon All Hope

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura
Ché la diritta via era smarrita

Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura
Esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte
Che nel pensier rinova la paura!

Tant' è amara che poco è più morte
Ma per trattar del ben ch'i' vi trovai
Dirò de l'altre cose ch'i' v'ho scorte

I cannot well repeat
How I got in
This
Forest
I had abandoned the true way

These beasts are haunting me
Restless they are
There's
No hope
That I will get to see the light

Wait now, I can see you
Pity me, what
Is it you are?
A shade or a man?

Not a man now, but once I was
Mantuan by birth, poet by heart
We shall enter the realm of dead

Oh great sage but I am not that brave

I will guide you, show no fear
Someone up there holds you dear
Heed all things you'll see and hear

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here

Languages diverse, horrible dialects
Accents of anger, words of agony
Forever in that air forever black, I hear it back now
All that suffering!

Charon grant us passage
For someone sent above

We reached the other side
And we were not alone

Here the men who lived 'fore God
Roam endlessly with those who were not called

This limbo is my home

Master who are these souls whose dignity has kept
Their way separate from the rest?

The honor of their name
Which echoes up above within your life
Gains Heaven's grace!