There are twin Gates of Sleep. One, they say, is called the Gate of Horn and it offers easy passage to all true shades. The other glistens with ivory, radiant, flawless, but through it the dead send false dreams up toward the sky. And here Anchises, his vision told in full, escorts his son and Sibyl both and shows them out now through the Ivory Gate.
VirgilIt is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub...
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Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
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..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea
and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...
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The signs of the old flame, I know them well.
I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down
or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,
the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,
before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.
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...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
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I am Aeneas, duty-bound, and known
Above high air of heaven by my fame. -AM #CymruAMbyth
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Death's brother, sleep.
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