El Dorado

Vestido alegremente
Un caballero valiente
Por sombras y lo soleado
De lejos había viajado,
Entonando una canción,
Buscando El Dorado.

Pero se envejeció
Este caballero valiente
Y sobre su corazón cayó
Una sombra porque
La tierra jamás encontró
Pareció a El Dorado.

Y cuando su fuerza
Le abandonaba
Se dio con otra sombra
-Sombra,- dijo
-¿Donde estará
La tierra de El Dorado?

-Ve al otro lado de
Los Montes, de la Luna,
Y por el Valle de la Sombra.
¡Que vayas con valor,-
Contestó la sombra,
-Si buscas a El Dorado!

Collection: 
Spanish
1829
Edgar Allan Poe

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