Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Portugal: Arrabida, the Mountain | | Arrabida | | Fra Agostinho da Cruz (1540–1619) |
| | To His Brother, Diogo Bernardes
Translated by J. Adamson
OF Lima, whence I bent my pilgrim way | |
| In this lone mount my sepulchre to make, | |
| I may not to the beauties tune my lay, | |
| For thoughts would rise which I should now forsake. | |
| The humble garb of wool about me bound, | 5 |
| Formed to no fashion, but a lowly vest, | |
| And feet which naked tread the stony ground, | |
| From worldly converse long have closed my breast. | |
| The gaysome throng, who loudly laud thy name, | |
| Seeing thy gentle Lima ’neath the care | 10 |
| Of one, a noble prince and monarch’s heir, | |
| The more thou writ’st the more will sound thy fame. | |
| Brother, though I on thee less praise bestow, | |
| Jointly let ours to God eternal flow. | | | | |
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