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Gabriel Mistral - Death Sonnets Los Sonetos de La Muerte
Gabriel Mistral - Death Sonnets Los Sonetos de La Muerte
by Gabriela Mistral
From Desolación (New York: Instituto de las Españas del los Estados Unidos, 1922)
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by Gabriela Mistral
(translated by DK Fennell)
From out of the frozen vault where men had placed you,
I will lower you into the earth, both humble and sun-blest.
Those men did not know that I needed to sleep in it too,
and that we must always dream upon the same headrest.
I will put you to bed in the sun-blest ground, with the sweetness
and care that a mother betrays towards her child who is sleeping,
and the earth will spread itself into a cradle of softness
to receive the corpse of your youth in pain and weeping.
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