书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第2597章 LXIV

"Blest animals that sleep through half the year, Nor ope your heavy eyelids, night nor day!

For if such tedious sleep like death appear, Such watching is like life, I will not say, Since -- such my lot, beyond all wont, severe-- I death in watching, life in sleep assay.

But oh! if death such sleep resemble, Death, Even now I pray three stop my fleeting breath!"