SPANISH. 125 



Los pielagos sulco de otro elemento) 



Librarse determina diligente, 



Aunque navega sola, 



Hechos remos los pies, proa la frente. 



La vela el ala, y el timon la cola. 



j Misera garza, dije, combatida 



De dos contrarios ! bien, bien de mi vida 



Imagen eres, pues sitiar la veo 



De uno y otro deseo. 



A uno pues, y otro embate, 

 Coge las alas, 6 las velas bate, 



Y poniendo debajo de la una 

 La cabeza, se deja a su fortuna 

 Venir a pique, cuando 



Nos parecio caer revoloteando 

 Una encarnada estrella, 



Y los dos gerifaltes siempre en ella." 



TRANSLA TION. 



♦* Scarce had the heron dwindled to a speck 

 On the far sky, when from about the neck 

 Of a gerfalcon I unloosed the band 

 Which held his hood ; a moment on my hand 

 I soothed the impatient captive, his dark brown 

 Proud feathers smoothing with caressings down ; 

 While he, as if his hunger did surpass 

 All bounds, pick'd sharply on his bells of brass. 

 Scarce were they back restored to light, 

 He and another, when in daring flight 

 They scaled heaven's vault, the vast void space where play 

 In whirling dance the mote-beams of the day, 

 Then down the deserts of the wind they float, 

 And up and down the sky 

 One flies away as the other swoopeth nigh ; 

 And then the ashen-colour'd boat 

 (An ashen-colour'd boat it surely were, 

 That heron, that through shining waves of air 

 Furrow'd its way to fields remote) 

 Resolving to be free and not to fail, 



