Show I OLD MASTERS What is the sorriest thing that en- en enters enters Hell 1 None ot of the but sins this and that faIr deed WhIch a a. souls soul's sin at length could sup supersede These yet et are virgins whom deaths death's timely knell I Might once have sainted whom the fiends compel Together now In snake bound shuddering shuddering dering sheaves Of anguish while the pits pit's pollution leaves Their refuse maidenhood abom abom- Night sucks them down the tribute of the pit Whose names half bait entered in the book of Life Lite Were Gods God's desire at noon And M as their hair And eyes sink last the Torturer deigns no whit To gaze but yearning waits walts his destined wife The Sin still blithe on earth arth that sent them there Dante GabrIel Vain Virtues |