[We are smashing together “Los Ojos Verdes” by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1836-1870) and a 1909 translation by Cornelia Frances Bates & Katherine Lee Bates. For practicing Spanish while reading great literature.]
[Here is the page with all the story’s sections: Los Ojos Verdes
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Author’s Prefatory Remarks:
FOR a long time I have desired to write something with this title.
Hace mucho tiempo que tenía ganas de escribir cualquier cosa con este título.
Now that the opportunity has come, I have inscribed it in capital letters at the top of the page and have let my pen run at will.
Hoy, que se me ha presentado ocasión, lo he puesto con letras grandes en la primera cuartilla de papel, y luego he dejado á capriclio volar la pluma.
I believe that I have seen eyes like those I have painted in this legend.
Yo creo que he visto unos ojos como los que he pintado en esta leyenda.
It may have been in my dreams, but I have seen them.
No sé si en sueños, pero yo los he visto.
Too true it is that I shall not be able to describe them as they were, luminous,
De seguro no los podré describir tales cuales ellos eran, luminosos,
transparent as drops of rain slipping over the leaves of the trees after a summer shower.
transparentes como las gotas de la lluvia que se resbalan sobre las hojas de los árboles después de una tempestad de verano.
At all events, I count upon the imagination of my readers to understand me in what we might call a sketch for a picture which I will paint some day.
De todos modos, cuento con la imaginación de mis lectores para hacerme comprender en este que pudiéramos llamar boceto de un cuadro que pintaré algún dia.
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Credits:
Author: Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1836-1870)
Translators: Cornelia Frances Bates & Katherine Lee Bates
Smusher-Togetherer: AMW