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Morazan Watch – Poem by Pablo Neruda



Morazán Vigila – Poem by Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wrote this poem in honor of the Central American champion, General Francisco Morazán.

High is the night and Morazán keeps watch
The tiger approaches brandishing an axe.
They come to devour your entrails

They come to divide the star
They come to devour your entrails.

They come to divide the star
They come
sweet-scented little America,
to nail you to the cross, to flay you,
to bring down the metal of your flag.

High is the night and Morazán keeps watch.
Invaders filled your dwelling.
And they split you like dead fruit,
and others sealed upon your back
the teeth of a bloodthirsty lineage,
and others plundered you in the ports
carrying blood upon your sorrows

Is it today, yesterday, tomorrow? You know it.

Brothers, dawn is breaking. (And Morazán keeps watch)

This poem is found in the work «Canto General,» the tenth poetry collection by Pablo Neruda, first published in Mexico, at the Graphic Workshops of the Nation, in 1950, and which he began composing in 1938. «Morazán» is poem number XXXI of his renowned work «Canto General».

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