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Sed mihi vel tellus optem prius ima dehiscat Vel pater omnipotens adigat me fulmine ad umbras, Pallentis umbras Erebo noctemque profundam.
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Sed mihi vel tellus optem prius ima dehiscat Vel pater omnipotens adigat me fulmine ad umbras, Pallentis umbras Erebo noctemque profundam.
— But oh! may Earth her dreadful gulph display,
And gaping snatch me from the golden day;
May I be hurl'd, by Heav'n's almighty fire,
Transfix'd with thunder, and involv'd in fire,
Down to the shades of Hell, from realms of light,
The deep, deep shades of everlasting night.
— Lines 24–26 (translated by Christopher Pitt).
