Though long the land waits

for the curved plough to open the first furrow,

there is sowing for God's grain

under thistles and burdocks and nettles.

What does a day matter? Yesterday waits

for to-morrow, to-morrow for infinity;

men of Spain, neither is the past dead,

nor is to-morrow, nor yesterday, written.

Who has seen the face of the Iberian God?

I wait