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    • Portuguese Sea

      O salty sea, so much of whose salt
      Is Portugal’s tears! All the mothers
      Who had to weep for us to cross you!
      All the sons who prayed in vain!
      All the brides-to-be who never
      Married for you to be ours, O sea!

      Was it worth doing? Everything’s worth doing
      If the soul of the doer isn’t small.
      Whoever would go beyond the Cape
      Must go beyond sorrow.
      God placed danger and the abyss in the sea,
      But he also made it heaven’s mirror.

      Fernando Pessoa (translated by Richard Zenith)

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