Paradise Lost Ⅷ 精彩片段:
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Not of my self; by some great Maker then,
In goodness and in power præeminent;
Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, [ 280 ]
From whom I have that thus I move and live,
And feel that I am happier then I know.
While thus I calld, and strayd I knew not whither,
From where I first drew Aire, and first beheld
This happie Light, when answer none returnd, [ 285 ]
On a green shadie Bank profuse of Flours
Pensive I sate me down; there gentle sleep
First found me, and with soft oppression seisd
My droused sense, untroubld, though I thought
I then was passing to my former state [ 290 ]
Insensible, and forthwith to dissolve: