Translations of Romance de la Luna, Luna, Luna
by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936)
Original Spanish
La luna vino a la fragua
con su polisón de nardos.
El niño la mira, mira.
El niño la está mirando.
En el aire conmovido
mueve la luna sus brazos
y enseña, lúbrica y pura,
sus senos de duro estaño.
Huye luna, luna, luna.
Si vinieran los gitanos,
harían con tu corazón
collares y anillos blancos.
Niño, déjame que baile.
Cuando vengan los gitanos,
te encontrarán sobre el
yunque
con los ojillos cerrados.
Huye luna, luna, luna,
que ya siento sus caballos.
Translated by
Helen Gunn,
CSU San Marcos
The moon came to the forge
with her skirt of white, fragrant flowers.
The young boy watches her, watches.
The boy is watching her.
In the electrified air
the moon moves her arms
and points out, lecherous and pure,
her breasts of hard tin.
Flee, moon, moon, moon.
If the gypsies were to come,
they would make with your heart
white necklaces and rings.
Young boy, leave me to dance.
When they come, the gypsies
will find you upon the anvil
with closed eyes.
Flee, moon, moon, moon.
Already I sit astride horses.
Young boy, leave me, don’t step on
Translated by
Dr. David K. Loughran,
John Hopkins University
The moon came to the forge
wearing her bustle of nards.
The child stares and stares at her;
the child keeps staring on.
In the agitated air the moon moves
her arms revealing lubricious and
pure
her breasts, tin and hard.
Run away, moon, moon, moon!
If the gypsies find where we are
white necklaces and rings
they’ll make of your heart.
Little boy, let me dance,
for when the gypsies come,
on the anvil they’ll find you
with your little eyes shut.
Run away, moon, moon, moon;
already I hear a horse.
Little boy, let me be, don’t step
on my whiteness of starch.
Beating the drum of the plains
the horseman approached,
and inside the forge
the child’s eyes are closed
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The moon came to the forge
with his polisón of nardos.
The boy the sight, watches.
The boy is watching it.
In the affected air
he moves the moon his arms
and he teaches, lascivious and pure,
its sines of duro tin.
It flees moon, moon, moon.
If the gypsys came,
they would do with your heart
white necklaces and ring.
Boy, leaves me that he dances.
When the gypsys come,
they will find you on the anvil
with the closed ojillos.
He flees moon, moon, moon,
that I already feel its horses.
Boy, leaves me, you are not above
Niño, déjame, no pises my starched whiteness. Through the olive grove they came, my starchy whiteness.
mi blancor almidonado. gypsies half bronze and half dream,
The horse rider approaches their heads lifted up high, The rider approached touching the
El jinete se acercaba tocando beating the drum of the plain. eyes closed as in sleep. drum of the level one. Within the
el tambor del llano. Dentro Within the forge the young man forge the boy, has the closed eyes.
de la fragua el niño, tiene los has closed eyes. How the owl is singing,
ojos cerrados. from its tree, how it hoots! By the olive grove they came,
Through the olive grove they come, With a child by the hand bronze and dream, the gypsys. The
Por el olivar ven'an, bronce y the gypsies – bronze and dreaming, through the sky goes the moon. raised heads and the half-closed
sueño, los gitanos. Las heads lifted eyes.
cabezas levantadas y los ojos and eyes half closed. Inside the forge
entornados. the gypsies cry and scream. How it sings zumaya,
The air keeps on in vigil.
Hark, hear the night bird – The air its vigil keeps ay, how it sings in the tree!
Cómo canta la zumaya, how it sings in the tree. By the sky the moon goes
¡ay, cómo canta en el árbol! Across the sky moves the moon, with a boy of the hand.
Por el cielo va la luna holding the young boy by the hand.
con un niño de la mano. Within the forge they cry,
Within the forge the gypsies cry, giving shouts, the gypsys.
Dentro de la fragua lloran, are crying out. The air the candle, guards.
dando gritos, los gitanos. The air watches over her, watches. The air is guarding it
El aire la vela, vela. The air is watching over her.
El aire la está velando.