César Vallejo

César Vallejo

Summary

Portrait of César Vallejo César Vallejo,  Pilgrimage

“ The wing goes anointed in oil
and in purity. But a blow,
falling I don’t know where,
sharpens from each tear
a hostile tooth.
And a soldier, a great soldier,
wounds as epaulettes,
is enlivened in the heroic evening,
and at his feet he shows between laughs,
like a horrendous tramp,
the brain of Life.
We go on together, truly together,
unvanquished Light, sickly step;
we go on together by the
mustard-colored lilacs of a cemetery.
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