Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition by Luís de Camões

Author:Luís de Camões [Camões, Luís de]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry, General, REPD15, Fiction, UCPEP16
ISBN: 9780226092997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005-09-01T23:00:00+00:00

Debaixo desta pedra está metido,

das sanguinosas armas descansado,

o capitão ilustre, assinalado,

Dom Fernando de Casto esclarecido.

Por todo o Oriente tão temido,

e da enveja da fama tão cantado,

este, pois, só agora sepultado,

está aqui já em terra convertido.

Alegra-te, ó guerreira Lusitânia,

por este Viriato que criaste;

e chora-o, perdido, eternamente.

Exemplo toma nisto de Dardânia;

que, se a Roma co ele aniquilaste,

nem por isso Cartago está contente.

Dom Fernando

Beneath this stone, far from all the harms

and bloody weapons of war, there lies in peace,

Dom Fernando de Castro, the Portuguese

Captain and illustrious man-at-arms.

Once so feared in the Eastern hemisphere

that even the envious sang his praise, and now

so recently buried in the ground and somehow

transforming himself to dust, he lies right here.

But rejoice, warlike Portugal, for you

have spawned, like Viriathus, another elite,

immortal hero. Lament his loss, but remind

yourselves of the resilient Romans who knew

that even their destruction and defeat

never gave Carthage any peace of mind.

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