Page:Os Lusíadas (Camões, tr. Burton, 1880), Volume 1.djvu/45

 While thus it happens in th' æthereal reign, Omnipotent Olympick height serene, the warrior People cut the curved main Austral and Oriental course between; where fronts the face of Æthiopick plain far-famed Saint Lawrence Isle ; Sol's brightest sheen upon the water-deities rained fire, who, changed to fishes, 'scaped Typhœus' ire.

The wafting winds so winsome urged their way, As though the smiling heav'ens dear friends defended; serene the welkin, and the lucid day dawn'ed sans a cloud nor aught of risk portended: Astern the leek-green point of Prasum lay an olden name where Æthiop coast extended; when Ocean op'ening broad a vista show'd of islets fondled by the circling flood.

Vasco da Gama, valiant Capitayne, for derring-do the noblest volunteer, of not'able courage and of noble strain, whom smile of constant Fortune loved to cheer; seeth no reason why he should remain where shows the shore-line desert, dark and drear: Once more determined he to tempt the sea; but as he willed Fortune nill'ed it be.