Gabriela Mistral

In vain you
To smother my song:
A million
In chorus sing

A crippled
Said, “How shall I dance
”Let your heart
We said

The night, it is deserted from the mountains to the sea
But I, the one who rocks you,
I am not alone
The sky, it is deserted for the moon falls to the sea

Sleep, sleep, my beloved,without worry, without fear,although my soul does not sleep,although I do not rest
Sleep, sleep, and in the nightmay your whispers be softerthan a leaf of grass,or the silken fleece of lambs
May my flesh slumber ...

A child's tiny feet,
Blue, blue with cold,
How can they see and not protect you
Oh, my God

I feel my heart meltingin the mildness like candles:my veins are slow oiland not wine,and I feel my life fleeinghushed and gentle like the gazelle

She speaks in her way of her savage
With unknown algae and unknown sands;
She prays to a formless, weightless God,
Aged, as if dying

From the icy niche where men placed youI lower your body to the sunny, poor earth
They didn't know I too must sleep in itand dream on the same pillow
I place you in the sunny ground, with amother's sweet care for her napping child,and th...

Let us go now into the forest
Trees will pass by your face,and I will stop and offer you to them,but they cannot bend down
The night watches over its creatures,except for the pine trees that never change:the old wounded springs that spri...

And we go on and on,
Neither sleeping nor awake,
Towards the meeting,
That we are already there

I
You shall love beauty, which is the shadow of God over the Universe
II
There is no godless art

Today I saw a woman plowing a furrow
Her hips arebroad, like mine, for love, and she goes about her workbent over the earth
I caressed her waist;
I brought her home with me