All Hope Abandon Lyrics

Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye

Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love

Supremest wisdom, and primeval love

Before me things create were none
Save things Eternal, and eternal I endure

All hope abandon ye who enter here

All hope abandon ye who enter here

Such characters in color dim I marked
Over a portal's lofty arch inscribed:
Whereat I thus: Master, these words import