Gregório de Matos

Baiano literate that used to compose metrical poetries in the XVIII century. Some serious, satiric and others ludicrous, most of them, more ludicrous than satiric.

Miracles of Brazil

A white person shrunk,

A mulatto very audacious,

A pitiable white

A mean insolent

The knowledge very dejected

The ignorance is ignorant

Very strong and tiring

Without punishing or contradiction:

Miracles of Brazil are.