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The portuguese language - Machado de Assis Last flower of Latium, wild, uncultured, fair, You are, at once, both splendor and the grave: Pure gold, the gangue's impurities don't bare A mine that´s veiled 'mid rocks and graveled. I love you thus, unknown, obscure and hidden, A blaring trumpet, lyre of guilelessness, Whose fury's like the sea that's tempest ridden, Whose lullabies are love and tenderness! I love your lush green woods and perfume wrung, From virgin jungles and expansive sea! I love you, rude and sorrowful native tongue, In which my mother said: "dear son of mine!" In which Camões bemoaned, grieved exile he, His luckless genius and love's tarnished shine! Última flor do Lácio, inculta e bela, És, a um tempo, esplendor e sepultura: Ouro nativo, que na ganga impura A bruta mina entre os cascalhos vela ... Amo-te assim, desconhecida e obscura, Tuba de alto clangor, lira singela, Que tens o trom e o silvo da procela, E o arrolo da saudade e da ternura! Amo o teu viço agreste e o teu aroma De virgens selvas e de oceano largo! Amo-te, ó rude e doloroso idioma, Em que da voz materna ouvi: "meu filho!" E em que Camões chorou, no exílio amargo, O gênio sem ventura e o amor sem brilho!

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Não é do Olavo Bilac esse poema?

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