The Divine Comedy ~ English Edition, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Inferno

Canto XXVII: Lines 1-16 of 136
English Edition, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Circle Eight: Bolgia Eight

The Evil Counselors

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1	Already was the flame erect and quiet,
2	To speak no more, and now departed from us
3	With the permission of the gentle Poet;

4	When yet another, which behind it came,
5	Caused us to turn our eyes upon its top
6	By a confused sound that issued from it.

7	As the Sicilian bull (that bellowed first
8	With the lament of him, and that was right,
9	Who with his file had modulated it)

10	Bellowed so with the voice of the afflicted,
11	That, notwithstanding it was made of brass,
12	Still it appeared with agony transfixed;

13	Thus, by not having any way or issue
14	At first from out the fire, to its own language
15	Converted were the melancholy words.

16	But afterwards, when they had gathered way

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