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Excerpt from The Lusiad, or the Discovery of India, Vol. 3 of 3: An Epic Poem
And with their rites impure her holy shrines profane. And thou, O Gaul, with gaudy trophies plumed, Most Christian named; alas, in vain assumed!
What impious lust of empire steels thy breast From their just Lords the Christian lands to wrest!
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