Salted sea

Encaustic painting about Fernando Pessoa poem "Portuguese Sea"

Oh salty sea, so much of your salt
Is tears of Portugal!
Because we crossed you, so many mothers wept,
So many sons prayed in vain!
So many brides remained unmarried
That you might be ours, oh sea!


Was it worthwhile? All is worthwhile
When the spirit is not small.
He who wants to go beyond the Cape (Boujdour)
Has to go beyond pain.
God to the sea peril and abyss has given
But it was in it that He mirrored heaven.