Dante Alighieri 
Dante’s Inferno 

‘IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death.Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover’d there.’