With a Lily in Your Hand
Text: by Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish, 1898-1936.
Translated by Jerome Rotheberg
With a lily in your hand
I leave you, o my night love!
Little widow of my single star
I find you.
Tamer of dark
Butterflies!
I keep along my way.
After a thousand years are gone
You'll see me,
O my night love!
By the blue foothpath,
Tamer of dark
Stars,
I'll make my way.
Until the universe
Can fit inside
My heart.