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God Wills, man dreams, the work is born.
God willed that all the earth be one,
That the sea unite rather than divide it.
Anointed by Him, you unveiled the foam,

And the white crest went from island to continent, 
A path of light to the world’s end,
And all at once the entire earth
Appeared, round, from out of the blue.

The One who anointed you made you Portuguese,
A sign to us our pact with the sea.
The Sea was won, the Empire undone. 
Lord, we still must win Portugal!

Fernando Pessoa
translated by Richard Zenith