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“To get back up to the shining world from there
My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel,

 

And Following its path, we took no care
To rest, but climbed: he first, then I — so far,
through a round aperture I saw appear

 

Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears,
Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.”

 

― Dante Alighieri, from Inferno Canto XXXIV, Robert Pinsky translation (1995)

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