Wednesday, January 21, 2015

SONETO XXXIV

"Sonnet 34"
~Garcilaso de la Vega
Gracias al cielo doy que ya del cuello
del todo el grave yugo ha desasido,
y que del viento el mar embravecido
veré desde lo alto sin temello;

veré colgada de un sutil cabello
la vida del amante embebecido
en su error, en engaño adormecido,
sordo a las voces que le avisan dello.

Alegrárame el mal de los mortales,
y yo en aquesto no tan inhumano
seré contra mi ser cuanto parece:

alegraréme, como hace el sano,
no de ver a los otros en los males,
sino de ver que dellos él carece.
Thanks I give that heaven from the neck
of all humanity the yoke has pulled,
and of the wind that e'er the sea has mulled,
fearless, I will see its strength uncheck;

And I will see on thin strand hung too beck
the life of the entrancèd lover, culled
alone in error, fraudulently lulled,
and deaf to any voice that warns of wreck.

Will cheer me now our mortal wickedness,
and I in this be not as inhumane
nor 'gainst my self as hearing may aback:

I will be cheered, as made more well and sane,
not by seeing others in their less
but by seeing they in bad do lack.
Image: Purifying Hope; Mark Lawrence