1. IV

    IV

  2. MARIPOSAS BLANCAS

    WHITE BUTTERFLIES

  3. La noche cae, brumosa ya y morada.

    Night falls, already misty and purple.

  4. Vagas claridades malvas y verdes perduran tras la torre de la iglesia.

    Vague mauve and green glimmers linger behind the church tower.

  5. El camino sube, lleno de sombras, de campanillas, de fragancia de hierba, de canciones, de cansancio y de anhelo.

    The path climbs, full of shadows, of morning glories, of the fragrance of grass, of songs, of weariness and of longing.

  6. De pronto, un hombre obscuro, con una gorra y un pincho, roja un instante la cara fea por la luz del cigarro, baja á nosotros de una casucha miserable, perdida entre sacas de carbón.

    Suddenly, a dark man with a cap and a hook, his ugly face reddened for an instant by the light of his cigar, comes down to us from a wretched hut, lost among coal sacks.

  7. Platero se amedrenta.

    Platero is frightened.

  8. --¿Va algo?

    "Carrying anything?"

  9. --Vea usted...

    "See for yourself..."

  10. Mariposas blancas...

    White butterflies..."

  11. El hombre quiere clavar su pincho de hierro en el seroncillo, y yo lo evito.

    The man wants to stick his iron hook into the little pannier, and I prevent him.

  12. Abro la alforja y él no ve nada.

    I open the saddlebag and he sees nothing.

  13. Y el alimento ideal pasa, libre y cándido, sin pagar su tributo á los Consumos...

    And the ideal food passes, free and innocent, without paying its tribute to the Custom-house...