Canto General

No one could and a lamp of earth was extinguished.

— Canto General

To the lands without namerestored flowers and lives.

— Canto General

It was the twilight of the iguana.

— Canto General

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

— Canto General

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

— Canto General

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

— Canto General

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

— Canto General

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

— Canto General

Rise up to be born with me, my brother.

— Canto General

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

— Canto General

In Cholula the youths wearDeath has answered them.

— Canto General

Everything abounded with deathbefore killing and being killed.

— Canto General

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

— Canto General

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

— Canto General

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

— Canto General

Hunger and pain were the silicaof dongs and warriors.

— Canto General

In our struggle, in our landremained motionless and mute.

— Canto General

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

— Canto General