Soledad Atienza – Dean. IE Law School.
Reading:
Portrait (Retrato) – (excerpt) by Antonio Machado , from the book Campos de Castilla, 1912.
My childhood are memories of a courtyard in Seville,
And a clear orchard where the lemon tree ripens.
My youth twenty years in the lands of Castile ,
my history, some cases to remember I do not want.
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Mi infancia son recuerdos de un patio de Sevilla,
y un huerto claro donde madura el limonero;
mi juventud, veinte años en tierras de Castilla;
mi historia, algunos casos que recordar no quiero