Luís de Camões - Os Lusíadas (1572)

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Better deserve them, and to goe without;
Than have them undeserved, without doubt.

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Ah! where shall weary man take sanctuary,
where live his little span of life secure?
and 'scape of Heav'n serene th' indignant storms
that launch their thunders at us earthen worms?

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For, though in Science much contained bee,
In special cases Practice more doth see.

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The crown, of heaven's own pearls, whose ardent rays,
Flam'd round his brows, outshone the diamond's blaze:
His breath such gales of vital fragrance shed,
As might, with sudden life, inspire the dead.

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No more the summer of my life remains,
My autumn's lengthening evenings chill my veins;
Down the black stream of years by woes on woes
Wing'd on, I hasten to the tomb's repose

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O Glory of commanding! O vain Thirst
Of that same empty nothing we call Fame!

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He who inflicts a vile and unjust harm by using the power and the force with which he is invested, does not conquer; the true victory is to have on one's side Right naked and entire.

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A nobler hero's deeds demand my lays
Than e'er adorn'd the song of ancient days;

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The moon, full orb'd, forsakes her watery cave,
And lifts her lovely head above the wave.

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I spoke, when rising through the darken'd air,
Appall'd, we saw a hideous phantom glare;

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Cease All, whose Actions ancient Bards exprest:
A brighter Valour rises in the West.

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My Song shall spread where ever there are Men,
If Wit and Art will so much guide my Pen.

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Right honest studies my career can show
with long Experience blent as best beseems,
and Genius here presented for thy view;—
gifts, that conjoined appertain to few.

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O foul disgrace, of knighthood lasting stain,
By men of arms a helpless lady slain!

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Now let the judging Reader mark what Rex
The Idol Gold (which all the World ador'th)
Plays both in Poor and Rich: by Money's Thurst
All Laws and Tyes (Divine, and Humane) burst.

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