Virgil, Virgil, rescue me
Read, perhaps, some poetry
Anything to make these horrid
creatures let me be
Virgil, banished am I
Lost in darkness, I rely
on you, please lead me far away
from where I'll surely die
I must ask that you not stray
Florence is the other way
Virgil, take me back at once
Turn around, I say!
Where, then, have you taken me?
Virgil, please, I cannot see
I'll admit that I'm afraid
as you must surely be
Do you see what's carved up there?
"Abandon all hope", this I swear
Virgil, if I'm not mistaken
those words mean 'beware'
Who are these unfortunates
sealed within the fiery gates?
Must I join them, Virgil, or
am I to test the fates?
Virgil, see where Charon stands?
Surely you and he are friends
He doesn't want me crossing here
so here, my journey ends
Now I really must protest
I am not at all impressed
Virgil, you and you alone
caused him to acquiesce
Please, dear Virgil, I feel weak
I'm shaking and it's hard to speak
What is happening to me?
It's growing dark and then--
I shriek! The storm grows louder still
I've woken on a lonely hill
Virgil! Take me back at once
I've taken in my fill
But Virgil would not let me leave
And I admit, I was naive
I knew nothing then of pain that
I could not conceive
What happened next, I cannot tell
Such horrors in that pit doth dwell
But I can say, in every sense
that I have been to Hell.
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