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Ye, Portingalls! as forceful as ye’re few, who e’er disdain to weigh your weakly weight; ye, who at cost of various deaths be true the Laws of Life Eternal to dilate: Cast by the heav’enly lots your lot ye drew, however poor or mean your mundane state, great deeds for Holy Christendom to show: So high, O Christ ! exaltest Thou the low!