Page:The Lusiad (Camões, tr. Mickle, 1791), Volume 1.djvu/470

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O thou, who knowest the ever-pressing weight
Of kingly office, and the cares of state!
And hear, ye conscious heavens, if GAMA's heart
Forget thy kindness, or from truth depart,
The sacred light shall perish from the sun,
And rivers to the sea shall cease to run.