 Befriending, prosper your ascent," resumed The courteous keeper of the gate : " Come then Before our steps." We straightway thither came. The lowest stair was marble white, so smooth And polish'd, that therein my mirror'd form Distinct I saw. The next...  The Harvard Classics - Page 1831909Full view - About this book
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...as if it were a mirror; the second (repentance), a rough, dark stone cracked lengthwise ; the third "seem'd porphyry, that flamed red as the life-blood spouting from a vein."* Upon the threshold, which looks like a diamond rock, God's angel is seated with his feet upon the red... | |
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