书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第971章 CXLIII

The sailors, in this war of wind and flood, Were prompt to manifest their vaunted art.

One blowing through the shrilling whistle stood, And with the signal taught the rest their part.

One clears the best bower anchor: one is good To lower, this other to hawl home or start The braces; one from deck the lumber cast, And this secured the tiller, that the mast.