GOODBYE – O ungrateful child!
You said to me – goodbye -?
Madness! better it would be
To separate the land from the skies.
– Goodbye – somber word!
Of a frozen and cold soul
You are the last flower.
– Goodbye! – misery! lie
Of a breast that does not sigh,
Of a heart without love.
O Lord! The wasteland bird
dies without a mate.
The lightning that burns the cedar
Burnt the parasite.
The star flirts with the dew:
– One is the star of the twig,
– The other is the dew of the amplitude.
But, at the light of the rising sun,
The star – in the west dies!
The dew – dies in the soil!
Never the fogs of the valley
Learnt how to say – goodbye –
If together they ascend from the ground,
Together they are lost in skies.
The wave dies on the shore.
But another wave comes soon
To die of the same pain.
– Goodbye – somber word!
Do not say – goodbye -, Maria!
Or do not speak to me of love!
(Antonio de Castro Alves)
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