Carry me to the graveyard
of worn-out shoes.
 
At all hours throw me
a pen of wild-broom.
 
Sow me with statues
rigidly gazing.
 
Through an orchard of mouths,
promising, golden
my shade will glow.

Miguel Hernández
Translation by A. S. Kline



   Cancionero y romancero de ausencias (1938-1941)    
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