Red - Intro (Canto III Innocence & Instinct) lyrics

"Through me the way is to the city of dolent
Through me the way is to eternal dole
Through me the way among the people lost

Justice incited my sublime Creator
Created me divine Omnipotence
The highest Wisdom, and the primal Love

Before me there were no created things
Only eterne, and I eternal last
All hope abandon, ye who enter in!"
These words in sombre colour I beheld
Written upon the summit of a gate
Whence I: "Their sense is, Master
Hard to me!"

And he to me, as one experienced:
"Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned
All cowardice must needs be here extinct

And I: "O Master, what is so grievous is
To these, that maketh them lament so sore"
He answered: "I will tell thee very briefly

These people have not any hope of death"