Canto

 1     2|     Where in the middle rose a rugged block,~With a fair castle
 2     2|        and fly,~Runs round the rugged rock with hopeless quest.~
 3     3|     best might make appear~The rugged road less dismal and severe.~ ~
 4     4|      Camaldoli.~Then through a rugged path and painful wended,~
 5     4|        had power:~She down the rugged hill descended slow,~Until
 6     4|        With steps by which the rugged hill to round;~And climb,
 7     6|         What art thou, who, in rugged case confined,~Dost live
 8     6|        XXXV~"Pursuing thus our rugged journey, we~Came (such our
 9     6|     But rough with stones, and rugged to the feet --~If he, some
10     8|          XIX~Meantime, through rugged rocks, and shagged with
11     8|        path to path forlorn,~A rugged, lone, inhospitable way:~
12     8|        she was placed upon the rugged block,~Where, chained and
13    10|      marble rare,~Which to the rugged rock so fastened seemed~
14    10|       they not fastened to the rugged stone:~But with her tears (
15    10|      never cleave the hard and rugged rock.~ ~ CV~With suchlike
16    10|      bray~Longer the monster's rugged scale in vain.~"For heaven'
17    12|      that so fair she made the rugged scene~Seem in the warrior'
18    15|      Water there is along this rugged track,~And grass; all other
19    19|        cruel gale.~Again their rugged rhind the champions wore,~
20    25|     and narrow way~Was to that rugged hill the stubborn key;~A
21    26| guiding may,~Had vainly by the rugged pathway sped;~Who that king
22    27|       or swamp,~Wood, rock, or rugged cliff, the steed restrain;~
23    29|        reached a path upon the rugged steep,~Which overhung a
24    33|       that region, which, with rugged mound,~Apennine parts, and
25    33|    whose praise you heard~When rugged Ischia's island I displayed,~
26    37|       the mountain's steep and rugged side;~And such good shelter
27    37|    rending form the mountain's rugged side~Tree, rock, and crop
28    37|      often dry-shod cross, its rugged bed.~ ~ CXI~So Marganor
29    39|  strand~Should not be steep or rugged for descent:~There would
30    41|       and dropping, climbs the rugged coast.~ ~ LI~All the others
31    41|     well content~With what the rugged sojourn does allow;~In that
32    42|   landed here;~And the isle so rugged and so rocky found,~In all
33    42|        hard to clamber was the rugged height.~ ~ LVIII~The stranger,
34    43|     was laid~Safely beside the rugged rock and fell:~The marquis
35    46|        he affronts the bear of rugged kind;~And there in rushy
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