Page:The Lusiad (Camões, tr. Mickle, 1791), Volume 1.djvu/399

 Vent'rous I sing, on soaring pinions borne, And all my country's wars the song adorn; What kings, what heroes of my native land Thunder'd on Asia's and on Afric's strand: Illustrious shades, who levell'd in the dust The idol-temples and the shrines of lust; And where, erewhile, foul demons were rever'd, To holy faith unnumber'd altars rear'd: Illustrious