The Divine Comedy

Upward I looked and I beheld it's shoulders

Vexilla regis produent inferni

Towards us, therefore look in front of thee,

My master said, if thou discernest him.

As, when there breathes a heavy fog, or when

Our hemisphere is darkening into night,

Appears far off a mill the wind is turning,

Methought that such a building then i saw;

And, for the wind, I drew myself behind

My guide because there was no oyhers shelter.

Now was I, and with fear in verse i put it,

There where the shades were wholly covered up,

And glimmered through like unto straws in glass.