书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第2774章 XIX

"The life of man its final close attains, When on the wheel is wound the fatal twine;

There fame, and here above the mark remains;

For both would be immortal and divine, But for that bearded sire's unwearied pains, And his below, that for their wreck combine.

One drowns them, as thou seest, mid sand and surges.

And one in long forgetfulness immerges.