Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Analect 2.517x



24 June 2009. Even gray skies...

Martín Fierro dice, acerca de cómo educan los indios al caballo:

El animal yeguarizo
(perdonenme esta advertencia)
es de mucho conocencia
y tiene mucho sentido;
es animal consentido,
lo cautiva la paciencia...

* * *

(The gaucho) Martín Fierro says, speaking of how the Indians tame a horse:

The animal of the horse clan
(forgive me this observation)
is of much conciousness
and has great understanding;
it is a creature of tolerance,
what wins it over is patience...

(quoted from Carlos Alberto Leumann, La Literatura Gauchesca y La Poesía Gaucha, Buenos Aires, 1953)

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