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62 And now my Master was recalling me,

Wherefore more eagerly I prayed the spirit

That he would tell me who was with him there.

He said: "With more than a thousand here I lie;

Within here is the second Frederick,

And the Cardinal, and of the rest I speak not."

Thereon he hid himself; and I towards

The ancient poet turned my steps, reflecting

Upon that saying, which seemed hostile to me.

He moved along; and afterward, thus going,

He said to me, "Why art thou so bewildered?"

And I in his inquiry satisfied him.

"Let memory preserve what thou hast heard

Against thyself," that Sage commanded me,

"And now attend here"; and he raised his finger.

"When thou shalt be before the radiance sweet

Of her whose beauteous eyes all things behold,

From her thou 'lt know the journey of thy life."

Unto the left hand then he turned his feet;

We left the wall, and went towards the middle,

Along a path that strikes into a valley,

Which even up there unpleasant made its stench.