RONDELES
XII
Rondeles
Músicas, músicas extrañas,
músicas, músicas exóticas!
-Música que el ánimo dañas
con frases súbitas, hipnóticas!
Músicas, músicas extrañas...
Músicas de las cabañas,
sin ilación, burdas, caóticas,
salvajes, ingenuas, hurañas...
Músicas, músicas exóticas!
Y músicas de naves góticas,
músicas de viejas Españas,
-bullangas, motines, hazañas-
en las que brujas estrambóticas
afilan sus frías guadañas...
Músicas, músicas exóticas,
músicas, músicas extrañas!
1917
Rondel
Harmonies, harmonies from the far away,
harmonics, harmonies from strange exotic lands!
Music that upon the soul asserts a painftil sway
suddenly awakened there as with hipnotic hands!
Harmonies, harmonies from the far away..
Harmonics that from the caves of woodland cabins stray,
endless, commonplace and vague that no one understands,
savage or submissive or with hurricanes aplay...
Harmonies, harmonies from strange exotic lands!
Harmonies that seem to bring the Gothic naves array,
harmonies where through the oldtime Spanish boast expands,
riotous and mutinous, heroic roundelay
where the hump-back witches cluster in fantastic bands
sharpening their heartless sickles for the wild foray...
Harmonies, harmonics from the far away,
harmonies, harmonies from strangc exotic lands!
Thomas Walsh,
New York 1925
