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'Sperae!
Cahi no areal e na hora adversa
Que
Deus concede aos seus
Para
o intervallo em que esteja a alma immersa
Em sonhos
que são Deus.
Que
importa o areal e a morte e a desventura
Se com
Deus me guardei?
É O
que eu me sonhei que eterno dura,
É
Esse que regressarei.
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Comentários: "Esperai!"- esperai pelo meu regresso! "Caí... para o intervalo em que esteja a alma imersa..."- morri e a minha alma repousa na paz de Deus" "areal"- o campo de Alcácer Quibir. "com Deus me guardei"- com a Fé me protegi. "É O que eu me sonhei... etc"- sonhei-me Imperador (do Quinto Império) e esse sonho sobreviveu à minha morte; é como tal que voltarei. |
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An introduction to the poem: King Sebastian is one of the symbols connected with the myth of the Fifth empire and in this short but interesting poem the dead king talks to the readers, starting with a plural "Wait!" (presumably -Wait for my return!). He says that his death is of little consequence for himself because he lives on in God's realm, and his dream (to be the emperor of the Fifth Empire) is everlasting and it is as such that he will one day return (not bodily, but as his dream incarnated in The Hidden One). King Sebastian Wait!
I fell on the sand at that hour contrary
That God concedes to his own,
For the interval in which the soul is steeped
In dreams that are God.
What matters the sand and death and misadventure
If I shielded myself with God?
It is Who I dreamed myself, that is everlasting;
It is as Such that I shall return.
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