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Follas Novas: Versos en Gallego

Chapter 30: Rico ou probe
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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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Rico ou probe algun dia

¡Con qué contento e pracidez folgaba!

Y agora probe ou rico, ô desdichado,

¡Todo, todo lle falta!

En valde veñen dias, pasan anos,

E inda sigros pasáran,

S’hay abondosas fontes que se secan,

Tamen as hay que eternamente manan;

Mais as fontes perenes n’esta vida

Son sempre envenenadas.

N’elas o esprito qu’ofendido pena,

N’a humidá enferma d’o rencor se baña

Sin que dado lle sea

Beber do olvido n’as saudosas auguas.

¡Odio! fillo d’o inferno,

Pode acaba-lo amor, mais ti n’acabas

Mamoria que recorda-las ofensas.

Si, si ¡de ti mal haya!