The snowfall is so silent,
so slow,
bit by bit, with delicacy
it settles down on the earth
...
It is night, in my study.
The deepest solitude; I hear the steady
shudder in my breast
--for it feels all alone,
...
En el silencio estrellado
la Luna daba a la rosa
y el aroma de la noche
...
Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit;
Sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate
That brushes your heel as it turns going by,
...
The man of flesh and blood; the one who is born, suffers and dies - above all, who dies; the man who eats and drinks and
...
Oye mi ruego Tú, Dios que no existes,
y en tu nada recoge estas mis quejas,
Tú que a los pobres hombres nunca dejas
...
Tú me levantas, tierra de Castilla,
en la rugosa palma de tu mano,
al cielo que te enciende y te refresca,
al cielo, tu amo,
...
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others.
Concern yourself only with how you appear before God,
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Corral de muertos, entre pobres tapias,
hechas también de barro,
pobre corral donde la hoz no siega,
...
At times to be silent is to lie.
You will win because you have enough brute force.
But you will not convince.
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