All those who perish in the wrath of God Here meet together out of every land; And ready are they to pass o'er the river, Because celestial Justice s… - Dante Alighieri

If who I am thou carest so much to know,
That thou on that account hast crossed the bank,
Know that I vested was with the great mantle;
And truly was I son of the She-bear,
So eager to advance the cubs, that wealth
Above, and here myself, I pocketed.
Beneath my head the others are dragged down
Who have preceded me in simony,
Flattened along the fissure of the rock.
Below there I shall likewise fall, whenever
That one shall come who I believed thou wast,
What time the sudden question I proposed.
But longer I my feet already toast,
And here have been in this way upside down,
Than he will planted stay with reddened feet;
For after him shall come of fouler deed
From tow'rds the west a Pastor without law,
Such as befits to cover him and me.

for already holds the confines
Of both the hemispheres, and under Seville
Touches the ocean-wave, Cain and the thorns

Therefore my will
Were satisfied to know the lot awaits me,
The arrow, seen beforehand, slacks its flight