'the Great Refusal'

[Tom Walker]

Inferno, Canto III, line 58

When I had recognized a few of them,
I saw and knew the shadow of that man
Who out of cowardice made the great refusal.

I understood at once beyond all doubt 
That this was the miserable and useless gang
Of those who please neither God nor his enemies.

Tom Walker, knoW Ware Communications
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