tonight is the full moon of December 2018 A.D.

I reproduce the text of three songs in the record 'Mi jardín solitario; Madrigal y cinco canciones sefardíes; Concierto de cienfuegos'. The texts are by Celedonio Romero (1913 – 1996), as translated into English by Susannah Howe.

First, the song 'Soledad!'

Let the horse run free, don't pull on his reins, for the day may come when you want him to run but can't

Don't let your heart be tainted by evil, and if love has gone... let it go, Soledad!

In Spanish:

Deja correr el caballo no le tires de la rienda, que puede ser que algún día quiera correrlo y no puedas.

No manches tu corazón con tinta de la maldad, y si el cariño se ha ido ... ¡déjalo, Soledad!

The next song is 'My heart is breaking' or 'El corazón se me parte'

My heart is breaking with grief and misery knowing you are in the world yet dead to me I told a stone in the street of my misfortune: see what effect my words had, that stone broke in two!

In Spanish:

El corazón se me parte de pena y de sentimiento al ver que estás en el mundo y para mí ya te has muerto A una piedra de la calle le conté yo mi dolor: ¡mira lo que le diría que la piedra se partió!

Finally comes the (poignant) song 'The Evening' or 'La tarde':

The evening became sad, breaking olive boughs and watering fields and fields of wheat with the tears that fell from its clouds

Centuries-old wheatfields, centuries in oblivion, the evening wanted to kill itself and hanged itself from an olive tree

The Spanish words, which are what are sung, are:

La tarde se puso triste quebrando ramas de olivos y con llanto de sus nubes regando trigos y trigos.

¡Trigales de siglos llenos! de sigolos en el olvido, la tarde quiso matarse y se colgó de un olivo

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