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Follas Novas: Versos en Gallego

Chapter 111: Vanidade
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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.

VANIDADE

Alguns ricos enterrans’ô probe,

E alguns probes ô grande s’enterran,

Todos para distinguirse,

E hastr’ô morrer ter fachenda.

¡Vanidá! ¡canto vals antr’os homes

Qu’hastr’as portas d’a morte penetras!

Mas des que cân n’o burato,

Todos iguales se quedan

Y o polvo, ô polvo se torna

E ond’os vivo-la soberbia.