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HOXE OU MAÑÁN, ¿QUÉN PODE DECIR CÁNDO?	TODAY OR TOMORROW, WHO CAN SAY WHEN?
Rosalía de Castro	Michael Smith - (from Galician)
Hoxe ou mañán, ¿quen pode decir cando? Pero quisais moi logo, viránme a despertar, i en vez dun vivo, atoparán un morto. Ó rededor de min levantaranse xemidos dolorosos, aies de angustia, choros dos meus fillos, dos meus filliños orfos. I eu sin calor, sin movemento, fría, muda, insensibre a todo, así estarei cal me deixare a morte Ó helarme co seu sopro. E para sempre ¡adiÓs, canto eu quería! ¡Qué terrible abandono! Antre cantos sarcasmos hai, ha de haber e houbo, non vin ningún que abata máis os vivos que o da humilde quietú dun corpo morto.	Today or tomorrow, who can say when? But perhaps very soon, they may come to wake me, and instead of one alive, find someone dead. Round about me pain-filled howls will soar, woes of anguish, laments of my children, of my little orphaned children. And I, bereft of warmth, inert, cold, mute, insensible to all, will stay as death has left me frozen at its breath. And forever, all I loved, Farewell! What a fearsome desertion! Amid so many sarcasms there are, will be, and were, I saw none depress the living more than the humble stillness of a poor corpse.