Inferno

Midway upon the journey of our life<br/>I found myself within a forest dark,<br/>For the straightforward pathway had been lost.<br/>Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say<br/>What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,<br/>Which in the very thought renews the fear.<br/>So bitter is it, death is little more;<br/>But of the good to treat, which there I found,<br/>Speak will I of the other things I saw there.<br/><br/>- Taken from "Inferno" written by Dante Alighieri