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SPANISH FOLK SONG by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ

Poem Explanation

First Line: LET THE RICH MAN FILL HIS BELLY
Last Line: BEFORE HAVING LOVED AT ALL.
Subject(s): DEATH; EMOTIONS; DEAD, THE;
LET the rich man fill his belly;
Let him fast that has no bread;
And he may sleep in the moon light
That cannot find a bed.

If the sea were one great ink-pot
And the sky of paper made,
The evil that's in women
Could not all be said.

If the sea were one great ink-pot
And of paper all the sky,
It were not enough for telling,
How deeply men can lie.

To love with no return
Is a sad thing to befall;
But a sadder, to come to die
Before having loved at all.



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