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Eran tres. (Vino el día con sus hachas.) Eran dos. (Alas rastreras de plata.) Era uno. Era ninguno. (Se quedó desnuda el agua.)
Confirmed with Federico García Lorca, Poet in Spain, New York: Alfred A. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017, page 16.
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There were three. (Day came with its axes.) There were two. (Low-flying wings of silver.) There was one. There was none. (The water was left naked.)
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