Thursday, January 4, 2007

VI of Still Another Day by Pablo Neruda

Pardon me, if when I want
to tell the story of my life
it's the land I talk about.
This is the land.
It grows in your blood
and you grow.
If it dies in your blood
you die out.

Copyright © 1971 by Pablo Neruda and Heirs to Pablo Neruda
Translation copyright © 1984, 2005 by William O'Daly

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