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| Federico García Lorca |
Federico García Lorca is possibly the most important Spanish poet and
dramatist of the twentieth century. García Lorca was born June 5, 1899,
in Fuente Vaqueros, a small town a few miles...
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| The Little Mute Boy
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by Federico García Lorca
Translated by W. S. Merwin |
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The little boy was looking for his voice.
(The king of the crickets had it.)
In a drop of water
the little boy was looking for his voice.
I do not want it for speaking with;
I will make a ring of it
so that he may wear my silence
on his little finger
In a drop of water
the little boy was looking for his voice.
(The captive voice, far away,
put on a cricket's clothes.) |
From The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca, by Federico García Lorca, translated by W.S. Merwin, published by New Directions. Copyright © 1955 by W.S. Merwin. Reprinted by permission of W.S. Merwin. All rights reserved. |
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