| «En la vida todo es ir
| «In life everything is to go
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| a lo que el tiempo deshace.
| to what time undoes.
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| Sabe el hombre dónde nace
| Does man know where he is born
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| y no dónde va a morir.»
| and not where he is going to die. »
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| El hombre que en la montaña
| The man who on the mountain
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| ?por la cruz de algún camino?
| ?by the cross of some road?
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| oye la voz del destino,
| hear the voice of destiny,
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| se aleja de su cabaña.
| he walks away from his cabin from him.
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| Y prosiguiendo su hazaña
| And continuing his feat
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| se dirige al porvenir
| he heads to the future
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| una esperanza a seguir.
| a hope to follow.
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| Mas no ha de volver la cara,
| But he must not turn his face,
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| pues la vida es senda rara:
| because life is a strange path:
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| en la vida todo es ir.
| in life everything is to go.
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| Miro esa palma que airosa
| I look at that graceful palm
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| su corona al sol ostenta
| his crown to the sun flaunts
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| y miro lo que aparenta
| and I look at what it seems
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| la esplendidez de la rosa.
| the splendor of the rose.
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| Contemplo la niña hermosa
| I look at the beautiful girl
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| riendo a lo que le place,
| laughing as he pleases,
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| y lo que el viento le hace
| and what the wind does to him
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| a la hoja seca del jobo:
| to the dry jobo leaf:
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| es la vida como un robo
| is life like a robbery
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| a lo que el tiempo deshace.
| to what time undoes.
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| Tuve un hermano que dijo
| I had a brother who said
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| ?"Cuando salí de Collores…"?
| "When I left Collores…"?
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| Así cantó sus amores
| So he sang his loves
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| al Valle del que fue hijo.
| to the Valley of which he was the son.
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| Una y otra vez maldijo
| Over and over he cursed
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| la gloria que en letras yace,
| the glory that lies in letters,
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| (y en que su nombre renace),
| (and in which his name is reborn),
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| pues que llegó a comprender
| So he came to understand
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| lo poco que es el saber:
| how little it is to know:
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| sabe el hombre dónde nace.
| man knows where he is born.
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| No hay más. | There's no more. |
| Un solo camino
| Only one road
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| que se quisiera tomar,
| that you would like to take,
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| mas la suerte del andar
| but the luck of walking
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| maltrata y confunde el tino.
| mistreats and confuses the target.
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| Nadie niegue su destino.
| No one deny his destiny from him.
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| Es que ser hombre es seguir
| It is that being a man is to follow
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| ?y un ideal perseguir?
| ?and an ideal to pursue?
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| por la vida hacia delante,
| through life forward,
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| sabiendo lo que fue enante
| knowing what was before
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| y no dónde va a morir. | and not where he will die. |