A VIDA XACE
Ecce puer
Do escuro pasado
Nace un neno;
De gozo e de pesar
O meu corazón desgárrase.
Tranquila no seu berce
A vida xace.
Que o amor e a piedade
Abran os seus ollos!
Nova vida exhálase
Sobre o cristal;
O mundo que non era
Énchese de existencia.
Un neno dorme:
Un ancián partiu.
Oh pai abandonado
Perdoa ao teu fillo!
Ecce puer
Of the dark past
A child is born;
With joy and grief
My heart is torn.
Calm in his cradle
The living lies.
May love and mercy
Unclose his eyes!
Young life is breathed
On the glass;
The world that was not
Comes to pass.
A child is sleeping:
An old man gone.
O, father forsaken,
Forgive your son!
.
James Joyce
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