书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第3309章 VIII

He looses bark and sail; and in bold wise Trusting the fickle wind, to seaward stood.

At first on her due course the vessel flies, And fills the pilot full of hardihood.

The beach retreats, and from the sailors' eyes So fades, the sea appears a shoreless flood.

Upon the darkening of the day, the wind Displays its fickle and perfidious kind.