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If My Hands Could Defoliate translated from Si Mis Manos Pudieran Deshojar

I pronounce your nameon dark nights, when the stars come to drink on the moon and sleep in tufts of hidden fronds.

And I feel myself hollow of passion and music.

Crazy clock that sings dead ancient hours.

I pronounce your name, in this dark night, and your name sounds more distant than ever.

More distant that all stars and more doleful than a calm rain.

Will I love you like thenever again?

What blamehas my heart?

When the mist dissipates, what other passion may I expect?

Will it be calm and pure?

If only my fingers could defoliate** the moon! ---------------------------Si Mis Manos Pudieran

Yo pronuncio tu nombre En las noches oscuras Cuando vienen los astros A beber en la luna Y duermen los ramajes De las frondas ocultas.

Y yo me siento hueco De pasión y de música.

Loco reloj que canta Muertas horas antiguas.

Yo pronuncio tu nombre,

En esta noche oscura,

Y tu nombre me suena Más lejano que nunca.

Más lejano que todas las estrellas Y más doliente que la mansa lluvia. ¿Te querré como entonces Alguna vez? ¿Qué culpa Tiene mi corazón?

Si la niebla se esfuma ¿Qué otra pasión me espera? ¿Será tranquila y pura? ¡¡Si mis dedos pudieran Deshojar a la luna!!

Translator’s note:

Defoliate is the only word I could find to translate 'deshojar', which means to take off the petals of a flower (depetaled would be a nice word, but alas isn't a word in the English vocabulary)**Translator’s note:

Defoliate is the only word I could find to translate 'deshojar', which means to take off the petals of a flower (depetaled would be a nice word, but alas isn't a word in the English vocabulary)

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Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca, was a Spanish poet, playwrigh…

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