In the middle of the path of our life

I found myself in a dark forest,

for the direct path had been lost.
Ahi, it is a hard thing to say what it was
this forest. so wild, rough, and tough
that the very thought renews fear!
So bitter it is, that death is little more;
but to treat the good that I found there,
Ill speak of the other things that I there saw.
I cant repeat so well how I entered,
so full I was of sleep at that point
that I abandoned the true path.
But after I had gotten to the foot of a mountain,
there, where which the valley ended,
that my heart was pierced with fear,
I looked up, and saw its shoulders
clothed already with the rays of the planet
that leads others straight in each street.
Then was the fear quieted a little
that was in the lake of my heart during
the night that I had passed with such pity.

And as he, with offending breath

issues forth from the sea to the shore
turns to the dangerous water and gazes,
So did my soul, that fled away still
Turn itself back to look again at the pass
that had as of yet never left a person alive.
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After I had rested my tired body a bit,
I resumed on the desert path in a way
that the firm foot was always the lower.
And there, around the beginning of the slope,
A panther so light and swift
that the spotted skin was covered;
And she never moved from before my face,
But rather impeded my walk so much
that many times I turned to return.
The time was the beginning of the morning,
and the son was mounting the stars
that were with him when the love divine
first set beautiful things in motion;
so that to me there was the occasion for good hope

of the varied skin of the wild beast

the hour of the time and the sweet season;
but not so much that it gave me fear
the view/sight that appeared to me of the lion.
Who appeared to me to be coming
with head high and with hunger ravenous,
so that it appeared that the air had fear.
And a she-wolf, that with all of the hunger
seemed to be around in her magrezza
and many people were caused already to live grame