map of a nation

centenarian oaks in Mediterranean forests
crossed by tracks of Celts and Romans,
frank and germanic, broth of cultures ...

pine forests planted by the farmer king
to raise their ships and give new worlds to the world
fruit of the wealth and wisdom of the heirs of the Temple ...

cork oaks and holm oaks filling the plains with wealth
under an abrasive sun, burning mysteries of past struggles
between desert warriors and knights from the far north ...

Viriato and Vimara here traced the gene
which Afonso concretized on the first day of the nation
that does not govern itself nor allowed to be governed ...

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