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JOAN MARAGALL (1860 - 1911)

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PATERNAL (Translation by Enric Bou)

Hate explodes throughout the earth with rage,

the broken-neck heads drip blood

and we must go to parties

bravely, as if to war.

At every mortal explosion - tre tremulous people turn their heads:

the cruelty which advances - the fear which retreats,

go along dividing the world between themselves ...

Looking at hi son at the breast, - the mother who sighs,

the father furrows his brow.

But the innocent infant,

who releases, satisfied, the emptied breast,

gazes upon him, - gazes upon her,

and laughs like a savage.

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