Horas de pesadumbre y de tristeza <br />paso en mi soledad. Pero Cervantes <br />es buen amigo. Endulza mis instantes <br />ásperos, y reposa mi cabeza. <br /> <br />El es la vida y la naturaleza: <br />Regala un yelmo de oro y de diamantes <br />A mis sueños errantes. <br />Es para mí: suspira, ríe y reza. <br /> <br />Cristiano y amoroso caballero <br />parla como un arroyo cristalino. <br />!Así le admiro y quiero, <br /> <br />viendo cómo el destino <br />hace que regocije al mundo entero <br />la tristeza inmortal de ser divino! <br /> <br />English Translation <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />A Sonnet on Cervantes <br /> <br /> <br />In all my days of troubled loneliness <br />And fretted grief Cervantes is to me <br />A faithful friend, and none so true as he, <br />That brings me precious gifts of quietness. <br /> <br />All nature his, and life. Of his largesse <br />My dreams, that are knight-errants bold and free, <br />Have golden casques to crown them gloriously. <br />He is, for me: sigh, prayer, joyousness. <br /> <br />He speaks as runs a brook, so amorous <br />And very gentle is this Christian knight, <br />Even undaunted. And I love him thus, <br /> <br />Beholding how the world, by fate's design, <br />Reaps, from his deathless sorrow, rich delight, <br />And laughter from a madness so divine!<br /><br />Ruben Dario<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/soneto-a-cervantes-with-english-translation/
