For if such holy Song / enwrap our fancy long," then we'll mistakenly convince ourselves that time could actually run backwards and that we've been returned to the Golden Age, the very first age of human history according to classical legend.

如果这神圣的天籁，永远包围我们想象的心怀“,然后我们就会错误的说服我们自己,时间实际上就会倒转,我们就会到达黄金般的国度，依照古典的传说就是人类最久远的历史。

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The Greeks of the classical period always thought there was an earlier age that was much better than the age in which they lived, an age in which men were heroes.

古典时期的希腊人认为过去,有一个比他们所处年代,更好的时代,一个英雄辈出的时代

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