Poema de Oscar Wilde com referência a D.Sebastião

36. The Grave of Keats 

RID of the world’s injustice, and his pain,  

  He rests at last beneath God’s veil of blue:  

  Taken from life when life and love were new  

The youngest of the martyrs here is lain,  

Fair as Sebastian, and as early slain.  

  No cypress shades his grave, no funeral yew,  

  But gentle violets weeping with the dew  

Weave on his bones an ever-blossoming chain.  

O proudest heart that broke for misery!  

  O sweetest lips since those of Mitylene!

  O poet-painter of our English Land!  

Thy name was writ in water——it shall stand:  

  And tears like mine will keep thy memory green,  

  As Isabella did her Basil-tree. 

ROME.

Poema em que Oscar Wilde refere D. Sebastião, belo e morto jovem como convém às grandes lendas.