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En las orillas del Sar

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A compact poetic collection of intimate, elegiac lyrics that blend personal sorrow, maternal tenderness, and longing for homeland. The poems juxtapose pastoral and riverine imagery with urban melancholy, giving voice to social hardships, memory, and spiritual resignation. Language relies on folk cadences and musical rhythms while experimenting with concise, fervent stanzaic forms, producing a tone both plaintive and dignified. Occasional prefatory material frames the poet’s life and reception, but the core remains concentrated on mortality, solitude, cultural belonging, and the expressive duties of poetry.

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Cayendo van los bravos combatientes

Y más se aclaran cada vez las filas.

No lloréis, sin embargo;

En el vacío que los muertos dejan

Otros vendrán á proseguir la liza.

¡Vendrán!...; mas presto del vampiro odioso

Destruid las guaridas,

Si no queréis que los guerreros vuelvan

Tristes y obscuros á morir sin gloria

Antes de ver la patria redimida.