Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79. | | | | India: Goa | | The Fall of Goa | | Mauoel Maria de Barbosa Du Bocage (1765–1805) |
| | Anonymous translation
FALLEN is the emporium of the Orient, | |
| That stern Alfonso’s arms in dread array | |
| Erst from the Tartar despot tore away, | |
| Shaming in war the god armipotent. | |
| Goa lies low! that fortress eminent, | 5 |
| Dread of the haughty Nayre, the false Malay, | |
| Of many a barbarous tribe. What faint dismay | |
| In Lusian breasts the martial fire has spent? | |
| O bygone age of heroes! days of glory! | |
| Exalted men! ye, who, despite grim death, | 10 |
| Still in tradition live, still live in story, | |
| Terrible Albuquerque, and Castro great,— | |
| And you, their peers, your deeds in memory’s breath | |
| Preserved, avenge the wrongs we bear from fate! | | | | |
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