Canto

 1     2|     the bottom, where a wide~Portal conducted to an inner room:~
 2     5| straight behind the peer the portal hight.~Rinaldo through the
 3     6|  Propp'd at four points, the portal did repose~On columns of
 4     6|  That people who without the portal gay,~Lately with brutal
 5     9|     by other way~Than to the portal led, where Roland waits;~
 6    12|     giant through the golden portal passed,~Rogero close behind,
 7    17|   Rodomont stands before the portal, bright~With steel, his
 8    17|    and hewed, and shook that portal wide,~And in his fury let
 9    18|        V~Of those who to the portal foremost fleed,~The readiest
10    20|    to their bows,~And at the portal part the knight oppose.~ ~
11    32| Arrived, that lady finds the portal barred,~And that she seeks
12    36|       Marphisa from the city portal fares,~And on her gallant
13    42|    arch above.~Of bronze the portal leaves, which figures bear,~