Quemaba el sol; ardía el espartiyo
En la inmensa yanura como yesca,
Y él, tendido a lo largo en el apero,
Sestiaba en la glorieta.
Tenía de un láo una boteya e caña
Recostada a las botas con espuelas,
Y el de apala arroyáo a la cintura
Como pa que el facón no se le viera.
Adentro, con los ojos soñolientos,
Descansando la frente entre las...
Wisdom and Spirit of the universe!
Thou Soul, that art the eternity of thought!
And giv’st to forms and images a breath
And everlasting motion! not in vain,
By day or star-light, thus from my first dawn
Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me
The passions that build up our human soul—
Not with the mean and vulgar works of Man,
...
Sunset at Night — is natural —
But Sunset on the Dawn
Reverses Nature — Master —
So Midnight's — due — at Noon.
Eclipses be — predicted —
And Science bows them in —
But do one face us suddenly —
Jehovah's Watch — is wrong.
Were natural mortal lady
Who had so little time
To pack her trunk and order
The great exchange of clime —
How rapid, how momentous —
What exigencies were —
But nature will be ready
And have an hour to spare.
To make some trifle fairer
That was too fair...
