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Midway upon the journey of our life

I found myself within a forest dark

For the straightforward pathway had been

lost

Whiche'er thou art, or shade or real man?

Not man, man once I was

A poet was I, and I sang

Thee it behoves to take another road

Poet, I thee entreat

By that same God whom thou didst never know

So that I may escape this woe and worse

Thou wouldst conduct me there where thou hast said

That I may see the portal of Saint Peter

And those thou makest so disconsolate

So abandon all hope, follow me!