Translation:The Black Heralds (1918)

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The Black Heralds (1918)
by César Vallejo, translated from Spanish by Wikisource

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CESAR A.VALLEJO

THE BLACK HERALDS

(POEMS)

LIMA—1918

Qui pótest cápere capiat.
The Gospel.

INDEX

	Page
The Black Heralds	3
Agile Ceilings	5
Sacred Defoliation Communion Nervestorm of Anguish Hulls of Ice Christmas Eve Embers Halflight Willow Absent Ostrich Beneath the Poplars
Divers	29
The Spider Babel Pilgrimage The Narrow Loge
Of the Earth	39
?..................... The Poet to His Beloved Summer September Dregs Heathen Woman The Black Cup Late Hour Fresco Plaster Cast
Imperial Nostalgia	61
Imperial Nostalgias Leaves of Ebony Autochthonous Tercet Prayer of the Road Huaco May Village Woman Dead Idyll
Thunder	87
In the Greek Tents Agape The Voice of the Mirror White Rose The One of a Thousand Our Bread Absolute Naked in Mud Capitulation Lines Forbidden Love The Miserable Dinner For My Beloved's Impossible Soul The Eternal Wedding Bed The Stones Altarpiece Pagan Woman The Eternal Dice The Weary Rings Calendar of Saints Rain Love God Unity The Mule Drivers
Songs of Home	139
Lace of Fever The Distant Steps To My Brother Miguel Januariad Espergesia

ERRATA

Page	For	Read
10	Betlén	Belén
27	Betten	Belén
28	horfandad	orfandad
45	a buscar y á bendecir	a buscar y bendecir
71	autoociono	autóctono
84	porvenir	Por venir
132	Amor, van	Amor, ven
137	Los doce	Las doce
137	Cobilo tu horizonte y atisbo, lamentado, por sancudos.	Cavilo tu horizonte, y atisbo lamentado por zancudos.

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