CANCIONCILLA DEL Primer Deseo
En la manana verde,
queria ser corazon.
Corazon.
Y en la tarde madura
Queria ser ruisenor.
Ruisenor.
(Alma,
ponte color de naranja.
Alma,
ponte color de amor.)
En la manana viva
yo queria ser yo.
Corazon.
Y en la tarde caida
queria ser mi voz.
Ruisenor.
!Alma,
ponte color de naranja!
!Alma,
ponte color de amor!
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Ditty of First Desire
In the green morning
I wanted to be a heart.
A heart.
And in the ripe evening
I wanted to be a nightingale.
A nightingale.
(Soul,
turn orange-colored.
Soul,
turn the color of love.)
In the vivid morning
I wanted to be myself.
A heart.
And at evening’s end
I wanted to be my voice.
A nightingale.
Soul,
turn orange-colored!
Soul,
Turn the color of love!
--from Selected Verse: Revised Bilingual Edition by Federico Garcia Lorca, Trans. by Catherine Brown, Cola Franzen, Angela Jaffray, Galway Kinnell, Will Kirkland, Christopher Maurer, Jerome Rothenberg, Greg Simon, Alan S. Trueblood, and Steven F. White (FSG, 1994)
