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Regrasará del llanto adonde fue llevada con su desierta mesa, con su ruinosa cama. Florecerán los besos sobre las almohadas. Y en torno de los cuerpos elevará le sábana nocturna, perfumada. El odio se amortigua detrás de la ventana. Será la garra suave. Dejadme la esperanza. (1938-1939) 
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Translator's note: Miguel Hernández (1910-~1942) was born into a poor family in Orihuela, Spain, and received little formal education. He was arrested many times for his anti-fascist sympathies and eventually sentenced to death (though he died of tuberculosis in extremely harsh prison conditions). Canción ultima is part of his Cancionero y romancero de ausencia ("Song and Ballad of Absence"), much of which is in the form of simple verses regarding the Spanish Civil War, his imprisonment, the death of an infant son, and the efforts of his wife and son to survive in poverty.  |
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