Si tú me miras, yo me vuelvo hermosa como la hierba a que bajó el rocío, y desconocerán mi faz gloriosa las altas cañas cuando baje al río. Tengo vergüenza de mi boca triste, de mi voz rota y mis rodillas rudas. Ahora que me miraste y que viniste, me encontré pobre y me palpé desnuda. Ninguna piedra en el camino hallaste más desnuda de luz en la alborada que esta mujer a la que levantaste, porque oíste su canto, la mirada. Yo callaré para que no conozcan mi dicha los que pasan por el llano, en el fulgor que da a mi frente tosca y en la tremolación que hay en mi mano... Es noche y baja a la hierba el rocío; mírame largo y habla con ternura, ¡que ya mañana al descender al río la que besaste llevará hermosura!
Los versos de la maestra, op. 14
Song Cycle by José Enrique González Medina (b. 1954)
1. Vergüenza [sung text not yet checked]
Language: Spanish (Español)
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- by Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga (1889 - 1957), as Gabriela Mistral
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3. Miedo
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4. Éxtasis
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5. Palabras serenas
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6. Balada de la estrella
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7. Canto que amabas
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8. El aire [sung text not yet checked]
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En el llano y la llanada de salvia y menta salvaje, encuentro como esperándome el Aire. Giran redondo, en un niño desnudo y voltijeante, y me toma y arrebata por su madre. Mis costados coge enteros, por cosa de su donaire, y mis ropas entregadas por casales... Silba en áspid de las ramas o empina los matorrales; o me para los alientos como un Ángel. Pasa y repasa en helechos y pechugas inefables, que son gaviotas y aletas de Aire. Lo tomo en una brazada; cazo y pesco, palpitante, ciega de plumas y anguilas del Aire... A lo que hiero no hiero o lo tomo sin lograrlo, aventando y cazando en burlas de Aire... Cuando camino de vuelta, por encinas y pinares, todavía me persigue el Aire. Entro en mi casa de piedra con los cabellos jadeantes, ebrios, ajenos y duros del Aire. En la almohada, revueltos, no saben apaciguarse, y es cosa, para dormirme, de atarles.. Hasta que él allá se cansa como un albatros gigante, o una vela que rasgaron parte a parte. Al amanecer, me duermo -cuando mis cabellos caen- como la madre del hijo, rota del Aire...
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- by Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga (1889 - 1957), as Gabriela Mistral, "El aire", appears in Tala, in Materias, no. 5
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