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Un pacto

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Haré un pacto contigo, Walt Whitman-

Te he detestado ya bastante.

Vengo a ti como un niño crecido

Que ha tenido un papá testarudo;

Ya tengo edad de hacer amigos.

Fuiste tú el que cortaste la madera,

ya es tiempo ahora de labrar.

Tenemos la misma savia y la misma raíz-

Haya comercio, pues, entre nosotros.

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A pact

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I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman –


I have detested you long enough.


I come to you as a grown child


Who has had a pig-headed father;


I am old enough now to make friends.


It was you that broke the new wood,


Now is a time for carving.


We have one sap and one root – 


Let there be commerce between us.

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Ezra Loomis Pound

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Un pacto

Pound: antología

Visor Libros

1984

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