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The Lusiad

Note 86 — BOOK I.

William Julius Mickle translation

—— and the light turn'd pale.—The thought in the original has something in it wildly great, though it is not expressed in the happiest manner of Camoëns—

O ceo tremeo, e Apollo detorvado Hum pauco a luz perdeo, como infiado.

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