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e cede ao impulso
De penuria, e pede
pão.
Pede o pão que amassa em pranto
De saudades que crê vem
D'uma

cella que comprára
Quando o mundo cá deixára
Com as pompas
que elle tem!
Pede o pão que lhe usurparam
Com tamanho
desamor...
Fraco, ao vêr que chega a morte,
Morre... e então mostra
que é forte
Perdoando ao matador!
Lá, no campo da carnagem,
Mutilado um corpo jaz...
Ficaram-lhe
alli seus ossos...
Pois que foi um d'entre os Vossos
Real Senhor!
não terá paz.
Nem a paz dos que morreram
Sem a nodoa da traição

Nem a paz da sepultura
Ao fiel que honrado jura
Morrer sob o
seu pendão
Lá se abraça ao corpo exangue
No abandono da viuvez
A que alli
vive arrastada
Mendigando, envergonhada,
Improperios... talvez!

Pobre, e só, mãe de tres filhos
Quando a fome a constrangeu,
Inda
assim, um pensamento,
Uma esperança, um grato alento
Foi por
Vós que o concebeu...
Vaga o anjo do exterminio
Enverga o manto real;
D'um diadema a
fronte cinge,
Mas o sangue que lh'o tinge
Brada vingança fatal!

N'essa fronte ensanguentada
Escreveu a mão de Deus!...
Mas
tambem homens puzeram
Inscripções onde se leram
Infamias como
tropheus!
Oh Rei de Portugal! Quando a amargura
D'este povo infeliz, é sem
conforto,
Valemo-nos do céu!
Pedimos-lhe por Vós, anjo proscripto,

Pedimos-lhe vigor á doce espr'ança
Que em vós o céu nos deu!
Vireis, Senhor vireis, que Deus é justo!
Vireis enxugar lagrimas
amargas
Que se choram por Vós!
Sereis de todos Pae, não vingativo,

E nós
todos irmãos, e Vós de todos...

O Rei de todos nós!
Fatidica aureola circumda
Nas plagas do desterro dolorosas
Vossa fronte real.
Sentado sobre as rochas da montanha
Lá mesmo
na solidão d'amargo exilio
Sois Rei de Portugal!
Deu-vos um anjo a Providencia augusta
Em galardão á dôr que
amargurastes
Com Santa intrepidez.
Um dia curvaremos o joelho
Perante Essa
que o ceu fadou Rainha
Do povo portuguez.
Camillo Castello Branco
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