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How the light of day
penetrates through my eyes to my soul!
My cave is dazzled,
as poor as it is, with glory
and seems suspended from living gold.
And my joy comes
out of her like a beautiful
daughter, naked, free,
in the happy stream of my song
that carries the dawn with it to infinity.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Translator: Antonio T. de Nicolás