Invitation To The Air Poem by Rafael Alberti

Shade, I invite you to the air,
Shade of twenty centuries,
To the truth of air,
Of air, of air, of air.
Shadow that never left
Your cavern, or to earth
Returned a jot of that sound,
That at birth brought you air
Of air, of air, of air.
Shade without light, delving
For the profundities
Of twenty tombs, twenty
Hollow centuries without air,
Of air, of air, of air.
Shade, to the summits, shade,
Of the truth of air,
Of air, of air, of air!