by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation

Mañanica era
Language: Spanish (Español)  after the Spanish (Español) 
Our translations:  ENG GER
Mañanica era, mañana 
de San Juan se decía al fin, 
cuando aquella diosa Venus
dentro de un fresco jardín 
tomando estaba la fresca 
a la sombra de un jazmín,
cabellos en su cabeza, 
parecía un serafín. 
Sus mejillas y sus labios 
como color de rubí 
y el objeto de su cara 
figuraba un querubín; 
allí de flores floridas 
hacía un rico cojín, 
de rosas una guirnalda 
para el que venía a morir, 
¡ah!, lealmente por amores 
sin a nadie descubrir.

Note for line 17: in some CD booklets, the typo "lentamente" appears instead of "lealmente".


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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Laura Claycomb) , "It was daybreak", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Es dämmerte der Morgen", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 80