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"October"
by Juan Ramón Jiménez
Grecia Alvarez (CAS '07) hopes to use
her education in English and Spanish literature as a librarian
in a Spanish-speaking country. She is from Miami, and passionate
about pro-Democratic movements in Cuba.
I was laying on the ground, facing
The infinite countryside of Castile,
Enveloped by autumn in the yellow
Sweetness of its clear setting sun.
Slowly, the plough, split in parallels
The dark earth and the simple
Opened hand released the seed
Into its honorably broken bosom.
I thought I’d rip out my heart, and put it,
Full of its high and deep feeling,
In the wide and tender furrow of dirt;
To see if once broken and planted
The spring might show the world
The tree of pure and eternal love.
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