| Master, what is it that I am hearing?
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| And what people are these so crushed by pain?
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| That is the manner of existence endured
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| By the sad souls of those who lived without occasion for infamy or praise
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| They are mixed with that abject squadron of angels who did not think
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| It worth their while to rebel or to be faithful to God, but were for themselves
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| Master, what is it that lies so heavily upon them; |
| that they call out as they
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| do?
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| I will tell you very briefly
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| They are without even the hope of death
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| Their blind existence is of such abjection that they are envious of every other
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| fate
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| The world does not remember them at all
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| Mercy and justice treat them with contempt
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| Let us not talk about them
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| Look and pass on
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| I had roamed into a deep dark forest
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| Lost the way my heart pounding on my chest
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| Oh that place overpowered my mind
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| So full of fear on that wild ruthless night
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| I rushed headlong down the slope I had climbed
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| And saw a beckoning old man by the hillside
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| Anteinferno — It burned in my mind
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| All the shrieks of the souls that will not rise
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| Anteinferno — Still creeps down my spine
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| With master Virgil I entered the dark aisle
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| And through the gates of hell we went
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| Saw ghastly things can’t comprehend
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| Millions of souls it came to pass
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| Eternally damned
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| Deep and thorny the passage that we walked
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| Down and down into depths of dark fort
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| We had come to a place swarmed with pain
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| Everyone here crying out to die again
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| Howlings resounding here under no stats
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| And words so hoarse tones of anger and gall
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| Anteinferno — It burned in my mind
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| All the shrieks of the souls that will not rise
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| Anteinferno — Still creeps down my spine
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| With master Virgil I entered the dark aisle
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| And through the gates of hell we went
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| Saw ghastly things can’t comprehend
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| Millions of souls it came to pass
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| Eternally damned
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| And once my journey was over I knew
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| Inferno’s hallway an abyss of doom
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| After my journey when my time will come
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| I’ll stand at the crossroads to choose my fate damned or saved?
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| 'Through me you go into the city of weeping
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| Through me you go into eternal pain
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| Through me you go among the lost people
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| (All this pain upon me)
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| Howlings resounding here under no stars
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| And words so hoarse tones of anger and gall
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| Anteinferno — It burned in my mind
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| All the shrieks of the souls that will not rise
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| Anteinferno — Still creeps down my spine
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| With master Virgil I entered the dark aisle
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| And through the gates of hell we went
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| Saw ghastly things can’t comprehend
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| Millions of souls it came to pass
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| Eternally damned
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| Anteinferno
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| Anteinferno
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| Anteinferno |