The Solitudes by Luis de Gongora

Author:Luis de Gongora
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2011-05-18T16:00:00+00:00

The tables cleared, to the melodious

sound of nymph once, now reed,cx

six from the mountains and six from the plains,

—their backs veined with subtle gold

that well-woven nacre denied to the windcy—

a lovely triad of graces, repeated

four times by twelve peasant girls,

entered dancing in rhythm;

and a sweet muse among them—if Parnassuscz

gives its consent to denizens more rough-hewn—

spoke and said, “Live happily

a long and never wearisome span of time;

and if wearisome, live always in loving

bonds, yoked as husband and wife.

May any vital thread that Clothoda spins

for you, from her high fatal distaff to the

brief spindle, surpass in candor the snow,

in carded splendor silver.

May the response of Fortune

to your farming be applause.

To the importune plow,

to the troublesome hoe

may a grateful field produce

for you—in uneven days—

well-threshed gold and nectar pressed.5

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