The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa, the aromatic Americ… - Rubén Darío

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The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,
the aromatic America of Columbus,
Catholic America, Spanish America,
the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said:
"I am not on a bed of roses" —our America,
trembling with hurricanes, trembling with Love:
O men with Saxon eyes and barbarous souls,
our America lives. And dreams. And loves.
And it is the daughter of the Sun. Be careful.

Rubén Darío

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Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916) was a Nicaraguan poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Rubén Darío.

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Alternative Names: Félix Rubén García Sarmiento • Ruben Dario • Felix Ruben Garcia Sarniento • Dario

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I seek a form that my style cannot discover,
a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient;
the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing:
there is no pain as great as being alive,
no burden heavier than that of conscious life.

Pity for him who one day looks upon
his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.

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