书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第2173章 XXVIII

His eyes from heaven did the Creator bend, At the stupendous and unequalled feat, And said: "I thee above that dame commend.

Whose death drove Tarquin from his royal seat;

And I to register a law intend, 'Mid those which ages change not as they fleet, Which -- I attest the inviolable river-- Unchanged through future times, shall last for ever.