Page:The Lusiad (Camões, tr. Mickle, 1791), Volume 2.djvu/95

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His gallant offspring prove their genuine strain,
And added lands increase the Lusian reign.

Yet not the first of heroes Edward shone;
His happiest days long hours of evil own.
He saw, secluded from the cheerful day,
His sainted brother pine his years away.
O glorious youth in captive chains, to thee
What suiting honours may thy land decree!

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