“If I have understood your words aright,”
replied the shade of that greathearted man,
“your spirit has been bruised by cowardice,
Which many a time so weighs a mean’s heart down
it turns him from a glorious enterprise —
as shadows fool the horse that shies away."
Sunday, February 9, 2020
As shadows fool the horse that shies away
Wonderful passage from Dante's Inferno as translated by Anthony Esolen
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