La luna vino a la fragua
con su polisón de nardos.
El niño la mira, mira.
El niño la está mirando.
Generación del 27·1928·fragmento (apertura)
Federico García Lorca
La luna vino a la fragua
con su polisón de nardos.
El niño la mira, mira.
El niño la está mirando.
Context
From Romancero Gitano (1928), Lorca's most popular collection. The 'romance' is a Spanish ballad form: octosyllabic lines, assonant rhyme on even lines. The whole poem tells the boy's death; this excerpt is just the opening four-line stanza, where the supernatural moon arrives.
In plain English prose
The moon came to the forge with her bustle of spikenards. The child watches her, watches her. The child is watching her.
Read it out loud at least once.
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