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第2769章 XIV

When they would raise themselves in upward flight, They have not strength the burden to sustain;

So that parforce in Lethe's water light The worthy names, which lasting praise should gain.

Two swans there are amid those birds, as white, My lord, as is your banner's snowy grain;

Who catch what names they can, and evermore With these return securely to the shore.