PaRDeS

 
 
Inside the garden
I shall surely die.
Inside the rosebush
They will kill me.

Mother, Mother, I went out
Gathering roses,
But surely death will find me
In the Garden.

Mother, Mother, I went out
Cutting roses,
But surely death will find me
In the rosebush.
Inside the garden
I shall surely die.
In the rosebush
They will kill me.

An ancient Spanish ballad cited in The Duende: Theory and Divertissement by the immortal Federico Garcia Lorca.

The essay is based on a famous lecture composed and delivered by the poet during his stay in Havana en route from the United States; subsequently repeated in Buenos Aires for the Sociedad Amigos del Arte (1934).

Read the whole thing here.

From Ruby.
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