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AVENA FATUA

avea bouba / avea louca/ balloca

GALLAECIA

Your vigorous sons 
In whom honour alone beats 
Brace themselves 
For fearless combat;
 Free yourself
 From shameful servitude 
And scurrilous soubriquet,
 Region of Breogán.

Open your arms in friendship
 To the noble Lusitania 
(To the home fields of long ago)
 With prodding ambition 
And realize the vague notions
 Of your noisy pine trees
 About some magical destinies,
 O host of Breogán!

Eduardo Pondal