Y que yo me la llev\u00e9 al r\u00edo
\n[Foolish me, that brought her to the river]
\ncreyendo que era mozuela,
\n[thinking she was a maiden,]
\npero ten\u00eda marido.
\n[but she had a husband.]<\/p>\n
Fue la noche de Santiago
\n[It was on Santiago’s night]
\ny casi por compromiso.
\n[and almost out of a sense of duty.]
\nSe apagaron los faroles
\n[The street lights went out]
\ny se encendieron los grillos.
\n[and the crickets lit up.]
\nEn las \u00faltimas esquinas
\n[On the last corners]
\ntoqu\u00e9 sus pechos dormidos,
\n[I touched her sleeping breasts,]
\ny se me abrieron de pronto
\n[and suddenly they opened up]
\ncomo ramos de jacintos.
\n[like wreaths of hyacinths.]
\nEl almid\u00f3n de su enagua
\n[The starch of his slip]
\nme sonaba en el o\u00eddo,
\n[resounded in my ear]
\ncomo una pieza de seda
\n[like a fine piece of silk]
\nrasgada por diez cuchillos.
\n[shredded by ten knives.]
\nSin luz de plata en sus copas
\n[Without silvery light on their tops]
\nlos \u00e1rboles han crecido,
\n[the trees have grown,]
\ny un horizonte de perros
\n[and an horizon of dogs]
\nladra muy lejos del r\u00edo.
\n[barks far away from the river.]<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
Pasadas las zarzamoras,Pasadas las zarzamoras,
\n[Past the blackberry shrubs,]
\nlos juncos y los espinos,
\n[the rushes and the hawthorns,]
\nbajo su mata de pelo
\n[under his head of hair]
\nhice un hoyo sobre el limo.
\n[I made a hole in the silt.]
\nYo me quit\u00e9 la corbata.
\n[I took off my necktie,]
\nElla se quit\u00f3 el vestido.
\n[and she took off her dress.]
\nYo el cintur\u00f3n con rev\u00f3lver.
\n[Me, the belt with the revolver,]
\nElla sus cuatro corpi\u00f1os.
\n[her, her four bodices.]
\nNi nardos ni caracolas
\n[No tuberose or seashell]
\ntienen el cutis tan fino,
\n[have so smooth a face,]
\nni los cristales con luna
\n[nor does the moon reflected on glass]
\nrelumbran con ese brillo.
\n[shine with such a radiance.]
\nSus muslos se me escapaban
\n[Her thighs ran away from me]
\ncomo peces sorprendidos,
\n[like surprised fish,]
\nla mitad llenos de lumbre,
\n[half of them full of heat,]
\nla mitad llenos de fr\u00edo.
\n[half of them full of cold.]
\nAquella noche corr\u00ed
\n[That night I ran through]
\nel mejor de los caminos,
\n[the best of paths]
\nmontado en potra de n\u00e1car
\n[riding a mother-of-pearl mare]
\nsin bridas y sin estribos.
\n[without bridles or stirrups.]
\nNo quiero decir, por hombre,
\n[Because I’m a gentleman, I won’t repeat]
\nlas cosas que ella me dijo.
\n[the things that she told me.]
\nLa luz del entendimiento
\n[The light of understanding]
\nme hace ser muy comedido.
\n[makes me prudent with my words.]
\nSucia de besos y arena
\n[Dirty with sand and kisses,]
\nyo me la llev\u00e9 del r\u00edo.
\n[I took her away from the river.]
\nCon el aire se bat\u00edan
\n[The air was fighting against]
\nlas espadas de los lirios.
\n[the lilies’ swords.]
\nMe port\u00e9 como quien soy.
\n[I behaved like what I am,]
\nComo un gitano leg\u00edtimo.
\n[a gipsy through and through.]
\nLe regal\u00e9 un costurero
\n[I gave her a big sewing box]
\ngrande de raso pajizo,
\n[made of straw-like satin,]
\ny no quise enamorarme
\n[and I didn’t want to fall in love]
\nporque teniendo marido
\n[because, having a husband]
\nme dijo que era mozuela
\n[she told me she was a maiden]
\ncuando la llevaba al r\u00edo.
\n[as I carried her to the river.]<\/p>\n
(Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca. Gypsy Ballads, <\/em>1928)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-7949","cita","type-cita","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cita\/7949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cita"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cita"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}