书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第56章 LVI

No fairy dies, or can, while overhead The sun shall burn, or heaven preserve their stile, Or Clotho had been moved to cut her thread, Touched by such grief; or, as on funeral pile Fair Dido, she beneath the steel had bled;

Or, haply, like the gorgeous Queen of Nile, In mortal slumber would have closed her eye:

But fairies cannot at their pleasure die.