by
Adolfo Bécquer (1836 - 1870)
Dios mio, que solos se quedan los muertos!
See originalLanguage: Spanish (Español)
Cerraron sus ojos
Que aun tenía abiertos;
Taparon su cara
Con un blanco lienzo;
Y unos sollozando,
Otros en silencio,
De la triste alcoba
Todos se salieron.
La luz, que en un vaso
Ardía en el suelo,
Al muro arrojaba
La sombra del lecho,
Y entre aquella sombra
Veíase a intervalos
Dibujarse rígida
La forma del cuerpo.
Despertaba el día
Y a su albor primero,
Con sus mil ruidos
Despertaba el pueblo.
Ante aquel contraste
De vida y misterios,
De luz y tinieblas,
Yo pensé un momento:
¡Dios mío, qué solos
Se quedan los muertos!
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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-3 of the original text.
Composition:
Set to music by Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946), "Dios mio, que solos se quedan los muertos!", 1899, published 1980, stanzas 1-3 [ voice and piano ]
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- ENG English (Diego Gonzales) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Line count: 104
Word count: 376
Language: English after the Spanish (Español)
They covered all their eyes,
That were even set open;
They covered their faces
With a white canvas;
Many of them sobbing,
Others in soft silence,
In the sad bedroom
All of them departed.
The light in a vase,
Burned on the ground,
It was throwing to the wall
The shadow on the bed,
And between that shadow
I saw it in intervals,
The rigid drawing of
The form of the body.
He was waking up the day
And at the first light of dawn,
With his thousand cries
He was waking up the town.
Set before this contrast
Of life and mystery,
Of light and darkness,
I meditated a moment:
My god, how alone
We abandoned the dead!
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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-3 of the original text.
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- a text in Spanish (Español) by Adolfo Bécquer (1836 - 1870), no title, appears in Rimas, no. 73
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