Saturday, May 12, 2012

Pablo Neruda / America, I Do Not Invoke Your Name in Vain


AMERICA, I DO NOT INVOKE
YOUR NAME IN VAIN
by Pablo Neruda
BIOGRAPHY
Translated by Jack Schmitt

America, I do not invoke your name in vain.
When I hold the sword to my heart,
when I endure the leaks in my soul,
when your new day
penetrates me thorough the windows,
I´m of and I´m in the light that produces me,
I live in the shade that determines me,
I sleep and rise in your essential dawn,
soaked in the sperm of your species,
nursed on the blood of your legacy.






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