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Follas Novas: Versos en Gallego

Chapter 73: ¡Adiante!
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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.

¡ADIANTE!

N’o escuro pavoroso

Y antr’o xordo romor d’os pinos bravos

Qu’a tempestá azoutaba com’a escravos,

Oyeuse, como queixa de raposo

Un asubio medoso.

E un layo de temor que daba frio,

Ô medoso asubio,

Respondeu dend’o fondo d’a espesura

Aumentando n’o espiritu a tristura

Que daba o ronco marmurar d’o rio.

Antr’as negras ribeiras manso e lento,

Como corre o abatido pensamento

Antr’os tristes remorsos y a esperanza,

Iña á compás do vento

Correndo tras d’a estensa lontananza.

Mais cabe d’ancha orela,

Misterioso e agachado un centinela,

N’un-ha lancha d’o Miño apousentaba;

Y a arma n’a man y en vela

Á través d’a ramaxen axexaba.