“For serving thee an arm to arms addressed;
for singing thee a soul the Muses raise.”
Pera servir-vos, braço às armas feito,
Pera cantar-vos, mente às Musas dada.
Stanza 155, line 1–2 (tr. Richard Francis Burton)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto X
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