Dulce Pontes - Canção do Mar

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PORTUGUESE SEA
Oh salty sea, so much of your salt
Is tears of Portugal!
Because we crossed you, so many mothers wept,
So many sons prayed in vain!
So many brides remained unmarried
That you might be ours, oh sea!

Was it worthwhile? All is worthwhile
When the spirit is not small.
He who wants to go beyond the Cape
Has to go beyond pain.
God to the sea peril and abyss has given
But it was in it that He mirrored heaven.

An introduction to the poem: Mar Português is the capital short poem of Portuguese Literature and also Pessoa's best known poem in his homeland. It sums up the cost of conquering the seas in terms of human suffering and asks "Was it worthwhile?" immediately replying with two resounding sentences "All is worthwhile when the spirit is not small" and "He who wants to go beyond the Cape has to go beyond pain". The poem then concludes in a grand manner with the statement that God created the sea dangerous but it was in it that He chose to mirror the sky that symbolizes heaven!

MAR PORTUGUEZ
Ó mar salgado, quanto do teu sal
São lágrimas de Portugal!
Por te cruzarmos, quantas mães choraram,
Quantos filhos em vão rezaram!
Quantas noivas ficaram por casar
Para que fosses nosso, ó mar!

Valeu a pena? Tudo vale a pena
Se a alma não é pequena.
Quem quere passar além do Bojador
Tem que passar além da dor.
Deus ao mar o perigo e o abysmo deu,
Mas nelle é que espelhou o céu.

Tenho andando nos últimos tempos meio afastada da blogolândia, e a tendência é de continuar, a todos que por aqui navegam as minhas desculpas, apenas desejo expressar meu agradecimento. Deixo-vos com um poema breve mais conhecido da lingua portuguesa, ”Mar Portuguez” de Fernando Pessoa, e a música de Dulce Pontes - Canção do Mar.