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Follas Novas: Versos en Gallego

Chapter 110: Brancas virxes
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A sequence of lyric poems in Galician that blend evocative depictions of misty coastal and rural landscapes with intimate meditations on grief, longing, and domestic life. The voice alternates tender, maternal and elegiac tones with sharper social awareness, addressing scarcity, departure, and cultural memory. Varied forms—short songs, narrative fragments, and longer reflective pieces—use folk rhythms and vivid natural imagery to explore language, belonging, and the persistence of feeling across absence and change.

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Brancas virxes de cándidos rostros,

Varons santos de frente serea,

Nobres matronas,

Monxas austeras,

Y aind’aquelas que parés que nunca

Tocaron c’as prantas

Os lodos d’a terra,

N’a concencia ¿quen sabe á escondidas,

As manchas que levan?

Mais s’hay anchos rios,

E mares imensos,

E lagos sin fondo,

E torrentes que arrancan as penas,

D’este mundo n’os ámbitos todos

N’hay auguas que laven

Manchadas concencias;

Y aqués que se manchan,

Manchados se quedan.

¡Soyo as lavan as vagoas abondas

D’a penitencia!