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“Such crown of conquest still bedeckt the brow of old Afonso, Lord of lofty fame; when he, in fine, who ever foiled his foe, was foiled by ancient Time’s unyielding claim: Past the death-sickness o’er his pallid brow its frigid hand, and wrung his feeble frame; and thus the debt on mortal shoulders laid his years to gloomy Libitína paid.