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ballad of the doomed man, by federico garcia lorca

28 Saturday Sep 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Poetry, Spanish, Translation

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Ballad of the Doomed Man, Federico Garcia Lorca, Poetry, romance del emplazado, Spanish translation

My fretting solitude!
The small eyes of my body
and the great eyes of my mare
do not shut out the night;
do not gaze faraway to see
a dream of 13 boats
toddle along peacefully.
Instead, as squires at vigil,
are clean and hard.
My eyes look toward the north
to the precipices and metals
where my body of no arteries
consults a frozen deck of cards.

Massive water oxen
charge at the schoolboys
bathing in the moons
of their fermenting horns.
Hammers were singing
on hypnotic anvils
insomnia of rider,
insomnia of horse.

On the 25th of June
they told El Amargo:
“The time has come to cut down
the oleanders out in your yard.
Paint a cross up on your door,
put your name beneath
for nettles and hemlock
will sprout from your haunch,
and needles of dewy lime
will gall through your boots.
When at night, in darkness,
over magnetic hillocks
where the water oxen
dreamily drink up the reeds.
Ask for the candles and bells.
Learn how to cross your hands
and taste the numbing winds
of precipices and metals:
for in two months from now
you will lie under a shroud.”

Santiago swings his sword,
astral, stellar, across the sky.
Dismal silence flows
out of an arching heaven.

On the 25th of June
El Amargo opened his eyes,
on the 25th of August
he lay down and closed them tight.
Men were bustling about the street
to see the man who was to die,
who fixed against the wall
his solitude, now feckless.
And the righteous sheet,
with its hard dactyl of Rome,
gave self-restraint to death
by the straightness of its edges.

—- translation by ZJC

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romance del emplazado

¡Mi soledad sin descanso!
Ojos chicos de mi cuerpo
y grandes de mi caballo,
no se cierran por la noche
ni miran al otro lado
donde se aleja tranquilo
un sueño de trece barcos.
Sino que limpios y duros
escuderos desvelados,
mis ojos miran un norte
de metales y peñascos
donde mi cuerpo sin venas
consulta naipes helados.

Los densos bueyes del agua
embisten a los muchachos
que se bañan en las lunas
de sus cuernos ondulados.
Y los martillos cantaban
sobre los yunques sonámbulos,
el insomnio del jinete
y el insomnio del caballo.

El veinticinco de junio
le dijeron a el Amargo:
Ya puedes cortar si gustas
las adelfas de tu patio.
Pinta una cruz en la puerta
y pon tu nombre debajo,
porque cicutas y ortigas
nacerán en tu costado,
y agujas de cal mojada
te morderán los zapatos.
Será de noche, en lo oscuro,
por los montes imantados,
donde los bueyes del agua
beben los juncos soñando.
Pide luces y campanas.
Aprende a cruzar las manos,
y gusta los aires fríos
de metales y peñascos.
Porque dentro de dos meses
yacerás amortajado.

Espadón de nebulosa
mueve en el aire Santiago.
Grave silencio, de espalda,
manaba el cielo combado.

El veinticinco de junio
abrió sus ojos Amargo,
y el veinticinco de agosto
se tendió para cerrarlos.
Hombres bajaban la calle
para ver al emplazado,
que fijaba sobre el muro
su soledad con descanso.
Y la sábana impecable,
de duro acento romano,
daba equilibrio a la muerte
con las rectas de sus paños.

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