Paradise Lost Ⅴ 精彩片段：
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For know, whatever was created, needs
To be sustaind and fed; of Elements [ 415 ]
The grosser feeds the purer, Earth the Sea,
Earth and the Sea feed Air, the Air those Fires
Ethereal, and as lowest first the Moon;
Whence in her visage round those spots, unpurgd
Vapours not yet into her substance turnd. [ 420 ]
Nor doth the Moon no nourishment exhale
From her moist Continent to higher Orbes.
The Sun that light imparts to all, receives
From all his alimental recompence
In humid exhalations, and at Even [ 425 ]
Sups with the Ocean: though in Heavn the Trees
Of life ambrosial frutage bear, and vines