Lesson 19

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Question SA-5. Here is the text reference (p. 190/4 to 6):

"The Sonnets of Death" by Gabriela Mistral

1 From the cold niche in which men placed you,

I will bring you down to the warm and humble earth.

They did not know that I will sleep there

and that we will dream on the same pillow.

I will lay you down in the sunny earth with a

mother's sweetness for her sleeping child,

and the earth will be the cradle's softness

when it receives your pained child's body.

Later I will sprinkle soft dust and rose powder,

and in the light blue dust of the moon,

the airy remains will become imprisoned.

I will leave singing my beautiful revenges

because in that hidden depth no one's hand

will enter to dispute with me your handful of bones!