Fernando Pessoa - Message (1934)

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Everything is worthwhile
if the soul is not small.

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The Gods sell when they give.
Glory is paid for with disgrace.
Poor are the happy, for they are
Just what passes.

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Oh Portugal, today you are fog...
The Hour has come!

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Without madness what is man
more than the healthy beast,
corpse adjourned that procreates?

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Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
All else is up to God!

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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman:
the endless sea is Portuguese.

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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador
Must go beyond pain.

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Oh salty sea, how much of your salt
are tears of Portugal!

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Against destiny I fulfilled my duty.
Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.

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The sea is fulfilled, and the Empire fell apart.
Lord, Portugal must yet fulfill itself!

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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss,
but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

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Clear in thinking, and clear in feeling,
and clear in wanting

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These are Fortunate Islands,
These are lands without a place

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Here lies, in the small extreme beach, the Captain Of The End.

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