Canto General

“No one could and a lamp of earth was extinguished.”

“To the lands without namerestored flowers and lives.”

“It was the twilight of the iguana.”

“I put my brow amid the deep waves,of spent human springtime.”

“How many times in the wintry streetsof a city or inthat I touched before on stone or in the lightning unleashed by a kiss.”

“Mighty death invited me many times:or vast structures of wind and glacier.”

“I want to know, salt of the roads,scrape the innards until I touch mankind.”

“Through the hazy splendor,like a bird captive for a thousand years!”

“Rise up to be born with me, my brother.”

“Give me silence, water, hope.Speak through my words and my blood.”

“In Cholula the youths wearDeath has answered them.”

“Everything abounded with deathbefore killing and being killed.”

“Sphere that slowly destroys the night, water, ice,and the crushed rose shrieks its dying breath.”

“Here comes the tree, thr treeagain from the bread to the earth.”

“Our land - wide land, wilderness -and was born in the secret springtime.”

“Hunger and pain were the silicaof dongs and warriors.”

“In our struggle, in our landremained motionless and mute.”

“You were the first to say Freedom,You freed the slave's child.”