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A Portuguese fleet becomes the object of conflict between Roman gods.

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The precinct portals by their work betray subtleties telling of the daedal hand, in forms whose noble presences display the hoar antiquities of India-land: The marvel-stories of her ancient day, with such a living art enfigured stand, that whoso reads them with a lore exact, knows from the Fiction what hath been the Fact.

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