Suomen kisapaikka ratkaistaan siis Portossa, viimeisellä rannalla ennen Atlanttia, melankolisen fadon maassa. Draaman ja odottavan jännityksen määrää ei voi ylittää, tai kuten Portugalin kansallisrunoilija Luis de Camoes asian ilmaisisi:
Let Love search for new arts, a new talent
to kill me, and new indifference;
for it cannot take away my hopes,
for it will have difficulty in taking from me what I do not have.
See with what hopes I maintain myself
See how dangerous my safety is!
For I do not fear contrasts or changes,
sailing on the rough sea, my vessel lost.
But, although there cannot be any grief
where there is no hope, Love hides
from me an evil that kills and cannot be seen.
For there are days that have placed in my soul
and I know not what, that is born I know not where,
appears I know not how and hurts I know not why.
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