THE LAUDATORY VOICES (fragment)
Brother: at times I doubt if you exist or I dream you;
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Crowned by spirits you reign in beauty
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Having as servants life and fantasy,
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And for your bride the glory that dusk utters:
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«May God rescue from his eyes the two long summers;
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And his hair, a butterfly inebriated by sun;
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And his mouth, a fresh rose upon the rivers
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Of fire and harmony; and the wax vases
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»Of his hands, showered with roses of tenderness
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And his shadowless body adorned in ermine
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With chastity over a purple of passion;
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»And, above all, may God save the corner of his life
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Where the Holy Ghost of his spirit lives:
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Above all, May God save his heart in me!»
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Illusion is sealed in his silky mouth,
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Illusion speaks not a word: it dreams and dreams …
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And life singing under the shadow of a cry:
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«His gaze dresses me with velvet and fire,
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Or spills on me two cups of darkness and gold
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Or it opens my flesh in roses with a warm sprinkle:
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»His body made of petals of pleasure and charm,
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Forms the corolla around the dark calyx of melancholy,
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And his spirit soars from his lips singing
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In a rosy bird with a somber wing».
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Análisis métrico
24
Versos
11.8
Media silábica
282
Sílabas totales