{"product_id":"2940149196210","title":"The Divine Comedy Volume I: Hell","description":"IN the midway of this our mortal life,\u003cbr\u003eI found me in a gloomy wood, astray\u003cbr\u003eGone from the path direct: and e'en to tell\u003cbr\u003eIt were no easy task, how savage wild\u003cbr\u003eThat forest, how robust and rough its growth,\u003cbr\u003eWhich to remember only, my dismay\u003cbr\u003eRenews, in bitterness not far from death.\u003cbr\u003eYet to discourse of what there good befell,\u003cbr\u003eAll else will I relate discover'd there.\u003cbr\u003eHow first I enter'd it I scarce can say,\u003cbr\u003eSuch sleepy dullness in that instant weigh'd\u003cbr\u003eMy senses down, when the true path I left,\u003cbr\u003eBut when a mountain's foot I reach'd, where clos'd\u003cbr\u003eThe valley, that had pierc'd my heart with dread,\u003cbr\u003eI look'd aloft, and saw his shoulders broad\u003cbr\u003eAlready vested with that planet's beam,\u003cbr\u003eWho leads all wanderers safe through every way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen was a little respite to the fear,\u003cbr\u003eThat in my heart's recesses deep had lain,\u003cbr\u003eAll of that night, so pitifully pass'd:\u003cbr\u003eAnd as a man, with difficult short breath,\u003cbr\u003eForespent with toiling, 'scap'd from sea to shore,\u003cbr\u003eTurns to the perilous wide waste, and stands\u003cbr\u003eAt gaze; e'en so my spirit, that yet fail'd\u003cbr\u003eStruggling with terror, turn'd to view the straits,\u003cbr\u003eThat none hath pass'd and liv'd.  My weary frame\u003cbr\u003eAfter short pause recomforted, again\u003cbr\u003eI journey'd on over that lonely steep,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe hinder foot still firmer.  Scarce the ascent\u003cbr\u003eBegan, when, lo! a panther, nimble, light,\u003cbr\u003eAnd cover'd with a speckled skin, appear'd,\u003cbr\u003eNor, when it saw me, vanish'd, rather strove\u003cbr\u003eTo check my onward going; that ofttimes\u003cbr\u003eWith purpose to retrace my steps I turn'd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe hour was morning's prime, and on his way\u003cbr\u003eAloft the sun ascended with those stars,\u003cbr\u003eThat with him rose, when Love divine first mov'd\u003cbr\u003eThose its fair works: so that with joyous hope\u003cbr\u003eAll things conspir'd to fill me, the gay skin\u003cbr\u003eOf that swift animal, the matin dawn\u003cbr\u003eAnd the sweet season.  Soon that joy was chas'd,\u003cbr\u003eAnd by new dread succeeded, when in view\u003cbr\u003eA lion came, 'gainst me, as it appear'd,\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Starling and Black","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47109043716336,"sku":"2940149196210","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149196210_p0.jpg?v=1763713098","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149196210","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}