And there in a boat that came heading towards us |
Was an old man, his hair snow-white with age, |
Raging and bawling, ‘Woe to you, wicked spirits! |
O never hope to see the heavenly skies! |
I come to bring you to the other shore, |
To eternal darkness, to the fire and ice. |
From Dante’s Inferno Canto III, The Divine Comedy |
Ravenna, Italy