Este niño es un encanto parecido al fino viento: si dormido lo amamanto, que me bebe yo no siento. Es más travieso que el río y más suave que la loma: es mejor el hijo mío que este mundo al que se asoma. Es más rico, más, mi niño que la tierra y que los cielos: en mi pecho tiene armiño y en mi canto terciopelos... Y es su cuerpo tan pequeño como el grano de mi trigo; menos pesa que su sueño; no se ve y está conmigo.
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Text Authorship:
- by Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga (1889 - 1957), as Gabriela Mistral, "Encantamiento", appears in Desolación, in Canciones de Cuna, first published 1922 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Carlos Guastavino (1912 - 2000), "Encantamiento", 1961 [ voice and piano ], from Seis canciones de cuna, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
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