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by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936)

Procesión
Language: Spanish (Español) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
I. Procesión
 Por la calleja vienen
 extraños unicornios.
 ¿De qué campo,
 de qué bosque mitológico?
 Más cerca,
 ya parecen astrónomos.
 Fantásticos Merlines
 y el Ecce Homo,
 Durandarte encantado.
 Orlando furioso.

II. Paso
 Virgen con miriñaque,
 virgen de la Soledad,
 abierta como un inmenso
 tulipán.
 En tu barco de luces
 vas
 por la alta marea
 de la ciudad,
 entre saetas turbias
 y estrellas de cristal.
 Virgen con miriñaque
 tú vas
 por el río de la calle,
 ¡hasta el mar!

III. Saeta
 Cristo moreno
 pasa
 de lirio de Judea
 a clavel de España.

 ¡Miradlo, por dónde viene!

 De España.
 Cielo limpio y oscuro,
 tierra tostada,
 y cauces donde corre
 muy lenta el agua.
 Cristo moreno,
 con las guedejas quemadas,
 los pómulos salientes
 y las pupilas blancas.

 ¡Miradlo, por dónde va!

Text Authorship:

  • by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "Procesión", from Romancero Gitano, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Richard Gard) , "Holy Week procession", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Procession", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Ivo Zandhuis

This text was added to the website: 2005-01-11
Line count: 42
Word count: 128

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