Oracion por Antonio Machado (With English Translation)

Oracion por Antonio Machado

Misterioso y silencioso

iba una y otra vez.

Su mirada era tan profunda

que apenas se podia ver.

Cuando hablaba tenia un dejo

de timidez y de altivez,

y la luz de sus pensamientos

casi siempre se veía arder.

Era luminoso y profundo

como hombre de buena fe.

Fuera pastor de mil leones

y de corderos a la vez.

Conduciría tempestades

o traería un panal de miel.

Las maravillas de la vida

y del amor y del placer

cantaba en versos profundo

cuyo secreto era de el.

Montado en un raro Pegaso

un día al imposible fue.

Ruego por Antonio a mis dioses.

Ellos le salven siempre. Amén.

English Translation

Antonio Machado

Wrapped in silence, secret-shy,

Once and again he wandered by.

From such depth his glances came

One could hardly see them flame.

When he spoke his accent would express

Timidity and haughtiness,

And nearly always one could see

His thoughts shining radiantly.

His faith was rooted on firm ground;

He used to be luminous and profound.

In the same flock shepherded

Lambs and lions he might have led;

He could have driven rambling gales,

Or brought honeycombs of tales.

The wonders of love and life and pleasure

Were his to sing in a magic measure,-

In verses whose meaning was hidden deep,

Whose secret lay in his soul's keep.

He mounted a rare wing's hose one day

I pray to my Gods for Antonio:

May they keep him from all woe.

Amen.