The Whale
Reference: 8
External LinkWhen the treacherous, crafty in harm,
has brought them into his fastness,
near the whirling flame, those who cleaved to him,
adorned with their faults, and eagerly obeyed
his precepts previously in their living days,
then he claps together his gruesome throat
fast after their soul-death, Hell's ornate doors.
They shall never have a turning or an escape,
an out-venturing, those who come inside there,
no more than the ocean-going fishes
may depart out from the whale's clutches.