04.07.07
La Mas Fermosa By Enrique Hernandez-Miyares
LA MAS FERMOSA
Que siga el caballero su camino
agravios desfaciendo con su lanza:
Todo noble tesón al cabo alcanza
fijar las justas leyes del destino.
Cálate el roto yelmo de Mambrino
y en tu rocín glorioso altivo avanza,
desoye el refranero Sancho Panza.
Y en tu brazo confía y en tu sino.
No temas la esquivez de la fortuna:
si el Caballero de la Blanca Luna
medir sus armas con las tuyas osa
Y te derriba por contraria suerte,
de Dulcinea en ansias de tu muerte,
di que siempre será la más fermosa!
LA MAS FERMOSA (English Translation by Alice Stone blackwell)
O knight, pursue thy way with courage free
Redressing wrongs and woes with mighty spear!
All noble firmness brings at last more near
The founding of just laws in equity.
Mambrino’s broken helmet take to thee;
Ride foward proud, victorious, without fear;
To Sancho Panza’s proverbs lend no ear;
Trust in thine arm and in thy destiny.
For the disdain of fortune have no care;
And if the Knight of the White Moon should dare
Measure his arms with thine, and thou shoulds’t fall
By evil fate, say with thy latest breath,
Of Dulcinea, ‘mid the pangs of death,
That she will ever be most fair of all!
by enrique hernandez-miyares
Tags: Enrique Hernandez-Miyares, Javier Hernandez-Miyares, La Mas Fermosa, Dulce Maria Loynaz, Cuban Poetry
FEFA said,
April 14, 2007 at 10:42 pm
IT IS INSPIRING TO READ THIS PIECE OF HISTORY.
Linda said,
April 19, 2007 at 8:13 pm
The poem sounds very majestic…
Francisco Javier Hernandez-Miyares, M.D. said,
July 24, 2008 at 10:33 am
This is an awe inspiring Sonet by my famous Great Grand Uncle who was also a very prominent journalist and apostole for freedom (before the Spanish-American War) in Cuba.
Thank you for publishing some of his great work for all to read and enjoy.