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Stones of Arauco and unleashed fluvial roses, territories of roots engage the man arrived from Spain.
They attack his armor with gigantic lichens.
The fern's shadows invade his sword.
Primal ivy puts blue hands on the planet's newly arrived silence.
Worthy man, sonorous Ercilla, I hear the pulsing water of your first dawn, a frenzy of birds and a thunderclap in the foliage.
Leave, oh, leave your blond eagle's imprint, crush your cheek against the wild corn, everything will be devoured in the dust.
Sonorous, you alone will not drink the chalice of blood, sonorous, only to the sudden glow radiating from you will time's secret mouth arrive in vain to tell you: in vain.
In vain, in vain blood in the branches of spattered crystal, in vain through the puma's nights the soldier's defiant advance, the orders, the footsteps of the wounded.
All returns to the feather-crowned silence where a distant king devours vines.