Songs

De acquel majo amante
That loving majo
que fue mi gloria
who was my glory I remember with
guardo anhelante
breathless happiness.
dichosa memoria.
He adored me
El me adoraba
ardently and loyally.
vehemente y fiel.
My whole life
Yo mi vida entera
I gave to him.
di a él.
And a thousand more I’d have given,
Y otras mil diera
if he had so wished:
si él quisiera,
for when love is deep,
que en hondos amores
torments are sweet.
martirios son flores.
And when I remember my beloved majo,
Y al recordar mi majo amado
dreams of former days
van resurgiendo ensueños
come flooding back.
de un tiempo pasado.

Ni en el Mentidero
Neither in Mentidero
ni en la Florida
nor La Florida
majo más majo
did a finer majo
paseó en la vida.
ever walk forth.
Bajo el chambergo
Beneath his sombrero
sus ojos ví
I saw his eyes
con toda el alma
fixed on me
puestos en mí.
with all his soul;
Que a quien miraban
whoever they gazed on
enamoraban,
was filled with love for him.
pues no hallé en el mundo
I have nowhere in the world
mirar más profundo.
seen so profound a gaze.
Y al recordar mi majo amado
And when I remember my beloved majo,
van resurgiendo ensueños
dreams of former days
de un tiempo pasado.
come flooding back.