A Place for Zinnias: Good Reading: "Brasil" by St. Joseph of Anchieta (in Portuguese and Latin)

Saturday 11 May 2024

Good Reading: "Brasil" by St. Joseph of Anchieta (in Portuguese and Latin)

O Brasil que, sem justiça,
andava mui cego e torto,
vós o metereis no porto
se lançar de si a cobiça
que de vivo o torna morto.

Quae sine iustitia prauo Brasilia cursu
ibat et obliquum, caeca, tenebat iter,
nunc directa, tuae iusto moderamine uirgae,
seruabit, tuis rectis, iusque piumque uisu.

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