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Rosalía de Castro

Dos Palomas

Dos Palomas

A classic poem by Galician romanticist writer Rosalía de Castro

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    “An excerpt (in English): I saw two doves meet crossing the spaces, and upon gliding, their wings touched... Perhaps by magic, at the light touch the two shuddered, and a sweet, indefinable, and brief enchantment they felt in their souls. And bending their path in a moment, seeing themselves alone, they swayed happily in the wind like a swan on the waves. They joined and flew tenderly united, and sought a new world for their pleasure and another, purer environment. And they found it at last, and made their nest on a soft bed of lilies and roses, and in it they fell asleep with the free and white butterflies. Yeah...”

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