Mezzo+Cammin

 Half my life is gone, and I have let  The years slip from me and have not fulfilled  The aspiration of my youth, to build  Some tower of song with lofty parapet.  Not indolence, nor pleasure, nor the fret  Of restless passions that would not be stilled,  But sorrow, and a care that almost killed,  Kept me from what I may accomplish yet;  Though, half-way up the hill, I see the Past  Lying beneath me with its sounds and sights,--  A city in the twilight dim and vast,  With smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleaming lights,--  And hear above me on the autumnal blast  The cataract of Death far thundering from the heights.   <span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Roman;"> The title refers to the opening of one of the most famous poems in literature: //<span style="font-family: Times-Italic; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Italic;">La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) //<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Roman;"> <span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Roman;"> Dante Alighieri **<span style="font-family: Times-Bold; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Bold;">Inferno: Canto I **<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Roman;"> <span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Roman;"> <span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Roman;"> Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita <span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Roman;"> mi ritrovai per una selva oscura <span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Roman;"> che la diritta via era smarrita. <span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Roman;"> <span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Roman;"> In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood with the right road lost. <span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Roman;">
 * <span style="font-family: Times-Bold; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Bold;"> Henry Wadsworth Longfellow **
 * <span style="font-family: Times-Bold; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Times-Bold;"> Mezzo Cammin **