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A SONG FOR BOLÍVAR

Our father who art in the earth, in the water, in the air

of all our great and silent breadth,

all bears thy name, father, in our land:

thy name the sugarcane raises to the sweetness,

Bolívar tin has a Bolívar brilliance,

the Bolívar bird over the Bolívar volcano,

the potato, the saltpeter, the special shadows,

the currents, the veins of phosphoric stone,

all that is ours comes from thine extinguished life,

thy heritage was rivers, plains, bell towers,

thy heritage is this day our daily bread, father.

Thy little brave captain's corpse

has stretched to immensity its metallic form,

suddenly thy fingers spread out through the snow

and the southern fisher suddenly brings to light

thy smile, ...

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