Rima XXXVI

by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
translated by H. Landman


If a history of our wrongs
    were written in a book,
and whatever was erased from its pages
    was erased from our souls;

I love you so much: in my chest
    your love left tracks so deep,
that even if you only erased one,
    I would erase them all!

Si de nuestros agravios en un libro
    se escribiese la historia,
y se borrase en nuestras almas cuanto
    se borrase en sus hojas;

Te quiero tanto aún: dejó en mi pecho
    tu amor huellas tan hondas,
que sólo con que tú borrases una,
    ¡las borraba yo todas!


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