In the canon
The Lusiads
Luís Vaz de Camõens
- Form
- Form Epic Poem
- Year
- Year 1572
- Originally in
- Originally in Portuguese
- Pages
- Pages 270
Off the southern tip of Africa a cloud gathers into a face, and a giant with earth-coloured hair leans out of the storm to ask the small ships below how they dare. Adamastor is the Cape itself, a monster who loved a sea-nymph and was refused, and his curse hangs over every Portuguese sail that follows.
In me the Spirit of the Cape behold, That rock, by you the Cape of Tempests nam'd,
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