At The Infernal Portal (Canto III) - Ancient

Per me si va ne la citta dolente

Per me si va ne l’etterno dolore

Per me si va tra la perduta gente

Guistizia mosse il mio alto fattore

Fecemi la divina podestate

La somma sapienza e’l primo amore

Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create

Se non etterne, e io etterno duro

Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate

Through me you enter the woeful city

Through me you enter eternal grief

Through me you enter among the lost

Justice moved my high maker

The divine power made me The supreme wisdom, and the primal love

Before me nothing was created

If not eternal, and eternal I endure

Abandon every hope, you who enter