Elena Cao – Black Shadow

Elena Cao – Senior Management Admissions & enrollment. IE University.

Reading:

Black Shadow (Negra sombre) by Rosalía de Castro  (1837 – 1885 ).

When I think that you have gone,
black shadow that haunts me,
at the foot of my bedside
you return to mock me.

When I imagine you have vanished,
in the very sun you appear before me
and you are the star that shines,
and you are the wind that blows.

If they sing, it is you who sing;
they weep, it is you who weep,
and you are the murmur of the river,
and you are the night and the dawn.

You are in everything, and you are everything,
for me, and within me you dwell;
you will never abandon me,
shadow that forever haunts me.

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Cando penso que te fuches,
negra sombra que m’asombras,
ó pé dos meus cabezales
tornas facéndome mofa.

Cando maxino que es ida,
n’o mesmo sol te m’amostras,
y eres a estrela que brila,
y eres o vento que zóa.

Si cantan, es tí que cantas;
si choran, es tí que choras,
y-és o marmurio d’o rio,
y-és a noite y ês a aurora.

En todo estás e ti ês todo,
pra min y en min mesma moras,
nin m’abandonarás nunca,
sombra que sempre m’asombras.