In vain you try
To smother my song:
A million children
In chorus sing it
Beneath the sun!

In vain you try
To break my verse
Of affliction:
The children sing it
Under God!

(C) Gabriela Mistral
03/19/2017


Best Poems of Gabriela Mistral

• I Am Not Alone
• Dusk
• The Sad Mother
• The Lark
• The Shining Host
• Creed
• Anniversary
• Those Who Do Not Dance
• The Alpaca
• Pine Forest
• The Rose
• The Stranger (la Extranjera)
• Decalogue Of The Artist
• Death Sonnet I
• To See Him Again
• Tiny Feet
• Song Of Death