3.08.2006

La Primavera by Pablo Neruda

El pajaro ha venido
a dar la luz:
de cada trino suyo
nace el agua.

Y entre agua y luz que el aire desarrollan
ya esta la primavera inaugurada,
ya sabe la semilla que ha crecido,
la raiz se retrada en la corola,
se abren por fin los parpados del polen.

Todo lo hizo un pajaro sencillo
desde una rama verde.
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Spring

The bird has come
to give the light:
from each trill of his
water is born.

And between water and light that unroll the air
now the spring is inaugurated,
now the seed knows that it has grown,
the root is portrayed in the corolla,
at last the eyelids of pollen unclose.

All this was done by a simple bird
from a green branch.