"The Carillon" by Rosalía de Castro, translated by Garrett Strange

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September 18, 2021 

The Carillon


Rosalía de Castro
translated by Garrett Strange

I love them—and I hearken
   As the winds their notes prolong,
Like the murmur of a fountain,
   Like a lambkin’s distant song,

Like the birds serenely winging
   On their way across the skies,
At the break of daylight soaring
   To salute it with their cries.

In their voices saying ever
   O’er the plain and mountain peak
Something that is frank and candid
   That a soothing charm would speak.

Should their voices cease forever,
   What a sorrow for the air!
What a silence in the belfries!
   And the dead—how strangely bare!

 


    Las Campanas

    Yo las amo, yo las oigo
Cual oigo el rumor del viento,
El murmurar de la fuente
O el balido del cordero.

    Como los pájaros, ellas,
Tan pronto asoma en los cielos
El primer rayo del alba,
Le saludan con sus ecos.

    Y en sus notas, que van repitiéndose
Por los llanos y los cerros,
Hay algo de candoroso,
De apacible y de halagüeño.

    Si por siempre enmudecieran,
¡Qué tristeza en el aire y el cielo!,
¡Qué silencio en las iglesias!,
¡Qué extrañeza entre los muertos!

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on September 18, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“The Carillon” appeared in Hispanic Anthology (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920).

Rosalía de Castro was a Galician poet, who wrote in both Galician and Spanish. She was an important figure of the Rexurdimento, a Galician Romantic movement of the 19th century. She died on February 24, 1837.

Thomas Walsh was a poet, translator, and critic, who sometimes translated Spanish poetry under the pseudonyms Garrett Strange and Roderick Gill. He wrote four books of poetry, including The Prison Ships (Boston, Sherman, French & Co., 1909) and Don Folquet (John Lane Co., 1920), and edited the Hispanic Anthology (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), one of the earliest anthologies of Spanish poetry translated into English. He died on October 29, 1928.

Hispanic Anthology
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