Paradise Lost Ⅰ 精彩片段:
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Witness the Streets of Sodom, and that night
In Gibeah, when the hospitable door
Exposd a Matron to avoid worse rape. [ 505 ]
These were the prime in order and in might;
The rest were long to tell, though far renownd,
Th Ionian Gods, of Javans Issue held
Gods, yet confest later then Heavn and Earth
Thir boasted Parents; Titan Heavns first born [ 510 ]
With his enormous brood, and birthright seisd
By younger Saturn, he from mightier Jove
His own and Rheas Son like measure found;
So Jove usurping reignd: these first in Creet
And Ida known, thence on the Snowy top [ 515 ]
Of cold Olympus ruld the middle Air