Gabriela Mistral Song Poems

• 1. Song Of Death
  Old Woman Census-taker,
  Death the Trickster,
  when you're going along,
  don't you meet my baby.
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• 2. The Shining Host
  In vain you try
  To smother my song:
  A million children
  In chorus sing it
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• 3. The Rose
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• 4. Decalogue Of The Artist
  I. You shall love beauty, which is the shadow of God
  over the Universe.
  
  II.There is no godless art. Although you love not the
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• 5. The Lark
  You said that you loved the lark more than any other bird because of its straight flight toward the sun. That is how I wanted our flight to be.
  Albatrosses fly over the sea, intoxicated by salt and iodine. They are like unfettered waves playing in the air, but they do not lose touch with the other waves.
  Storks make long journeys; they cast shadows over the Earth's face. But like albatrosses, they fly horizontally, resting in the hills.
  Only the lark leaps out of ruts like a live dart, and rises, swallowed by the heavens. Then the sky feels as though the Earth itself has risen. Heavy jungles below do not answer the lark. Mountains crucified over the flatlands do not answer.
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