书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第3292章 LXXIV

In their unhappy state to leave that crew The Child, who loved those monarchs, cannot bear;

That useless is the empty hand he knew;

That where force is not, little profits prayer.

He couched his lance, their keeper overthrew, Then proved his wonted might with faulchion bare;

And in a moment stretched upon the strand Above a hundred of the Nubian band.