"Arms and the Heroes, who from Lisbon's shore, Through Seas where sail was never spread before, Beyond where Ceylon lifts her spicy breast, And waves her woods above the watery waste, With prowess more than human forced their way To the fair kingdoms of the rising day: What wars they waged, what seas, what dangers past, What glorious empire crowned their toils at last!"
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History of AfricaPortuguese EmpireFormer colonies in AfricaHistory of PortugalFormer colonies in South America
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Luís de Camões, Os Lusíadas (1572), stanza 1 (as translated by William Julius Mickle, 1776)
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