RIMA LXIX
¡La vida es sueño!
Calderón.
With a flash of lightning we are born,
and its light is still glowing when we die:
our life is that short!
The glory and the love we chase after
are shadows of a dream that we pursue.
Death is an awakening!
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
English Translation by Armand F. Baker
Manuscrito BNE
la vida es sueño * Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Voice: Antonio Mula Franco Voice: Leonelli Marcela
Original version
Libro de los gorriones
50
48
/ Rimas
LXX
LXVIII
