| Levanta la frente. | Raise your forehead. |
| No escondas la cara
| don't hide your face
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| Enjuga tus lágrimas, échate a reír
| Wipe away your tears, laugh
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| No tengas vergüenza, a tu rostro aclara;
| Do not be ashamed, your face is clear;
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| ¿por qué tanta pena?, ¿por qué tal sufrir?
| Why so much pain? Why such suffering?
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| Ya sé que tu falta será para el mundo
| I already know that your lack will be for the world
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| Escándalo, risa, placer y baldón;
| Scandal, laughter, pleasure and shame;
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| Mas yo soy tu hermano, y al ser juez me fundo
| But I am your brother, and being a judge I found myself
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| Según los dictados que da el corazón
| According to the dictates that the heart gives
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| No es falta la falta de dar luz a un niño:
| The lack of giving birth to a child is not a fault:
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| La ley de dar frutos es ley de la flor…
| The law of bearing fruit is the law of the flower...
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| No peca quien brinda la fe del cariño
| Does not sin who offers the faith of affection
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| Ni es crimen el darse confiada al amor
| Nor is it a crime to give oneself entrusted to love
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| Malvado es el hombre que infiere la ofensa;
| Wicked is the man who inflicts the offense;
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| Infame es el hombre que bebe y se va
| Infamous is the man who drinks and leaves
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| Y deja en la fuente, la flor y no piensa
| And he leaves the flower in the fountain and does not think
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| No piensa siquiera que un ser nacerá
| He does not even think that a being will be born
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| Acércate, hermana; | Come closer, sister; |
| no llores, no temas;
| don't cry, don't be afraid;
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| La ley de ser madre es ley natural;
| The law of being a mother is a natural law;
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| Las madres son diosas con santas diademas
| Mothers are goddesses with holy diadems
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| Ya cumplan o violen la norma legal
| They already comply with or violate the legal norm
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| La madre casada, la madre soltera…
| The married mother, the single mother...
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| Son todas iguales: son una, no dos;
| They are all the same: they are one, not two;
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| Lo nieguen las leyes, lo niegue quien quiera
| The laws deny it, whoever wants to deny it
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| ¡son todas iguales delante de Dios!
| they are all equal before God!
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| ¡No llores, hermana… Ya ves… te comprendo
| Don't cry, sister... You see... I understand you
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| De nada te culpo, mi afecto te doy; | I blame you for nothing, I give you my affection; |
| Mi casa, mis brazos, mis puños te ofrendo;
| I offer you my house, my arms, my fists;
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| Del hijo que traes cual padre ya soy
| Of the son that you bring, which father I am already
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| No temas, hermana; | Fear not, sister; |
| tendrás mis ahorros
| you will have my savings
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| Tendrás todo aquello que aquí dentro ves…
| You will have everything that you see inside here...
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| Tu buena cuñada me dio dos cachorros;
| Your good sister-in-law gave me two puppies;
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| De cuenta haré, hermana, que ya tengo tres | I'll count, sister, I already have three |