Camoens

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Excerpt from Camoens: His Life and His Lusiads, Vol. 1 of 2: A Commentary
Gerald Massey to Richard F. Burton.
"Englished by Richard Burton." And well done,
As it was well worth doing; for this is one
Of those old Poets, who are always new,
That share eternity with all that's true,
And of their own abounding spirit do give
Substance to Earth's dead Shadows; and make men live
Who in action merely did but flit and pass;
Now fixed for ever in thought's reflecting-glass.
This is the Poet of weary wanderers
In perilous lands; and wide-sea Voyagers,
And climbers fall'n and broken on the stairs.
A man of men; a master of affairs,
Whose own life-story is, in touching ruth,
Poem more potent than all feigned truth.
His Epic trails a glory in the wake
Of Gama, Raleigh, Frobisher, and Drake.
The poem of Discovery sacred to
Discoverers, and their deeds of derring-do,
Is fitly rendered, in The Traveller's land,
By one o' the foremost of the fearless band.
Gerald Massey
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