书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第2771章 XVI

To Immortality 'tis sacred; there A lovely nymph, that from the hill descends, To the Lethean river makes repair;

Takes from those swans their burden, and suspends The names about an image, raised in air Upon a shaft, which in mid fane ascends;

There consecrates and fixes them so fast, That all throughout eternity shall last.