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Amado Nervo: “En Paz” (At Peace)

Amado Nervo

(1870-1919)

“En Paz”

(Artifex vitae artifex sui)

 

Muy cerca de mi ocaso, yo te bendigo, Vida,

porque nunca me diste ni esperanza fallida,

ni trabajos injustos, ni pena inmerecida;

 

Porque veo al final de mi rudo camino

que yo fui el arquitecto de mi propio destino;

que si extraje la mieles o la hiel de las cosas,

fue porque en ellas puse hiel o mieles sabrosas:

cuando planté rosales coseché siempre rosas.

 

…Cierto, a mis lozanías va a seguir el invierno:

¡mas tú no me dijiste que mayo fuese eterno!

 

Hallé sin duda largas las noches de mis penas;

mas no me prometiste tan sólo noches buenas;

y en cambio tuve algunas santamente serenas…

 

Amé, fui amado, el sol acarició mi faz.

¡Vida, nada me debes! ¡Vida, estamos en paz!

 

 

Amado Nervo

“At Peace”

(Creator of himself, of his destiny)

 

Very near my sunset, I bless you, Life

because you never gave me neither unfilled hope

nor unfair work, nor undeserved sorrow.

 

Because I see at the end of my rough way

that I was the architect of my own destiny

and if I extracted the sweetness or the bitterness of things

it was because I put the sweetness or the bitterness in them

when I planted rose bushes I always harvested roses

 

Certainly, winter is going to follow my youth

But you didn’t tell me that May was eternal

I found without a doubt long my nights of pain

But you didn’t promise me only good nights

And in exchange I had some peaceful ones

 

I loved, I was loved, the sun caressed my face

 

Life, you owe me nothing, Life, we are at peace!

 

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