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Original lyrics
Lo perdido
¿Dónde estará mi vida, la que pudo
haber sido y no fue, la venturosa
o la de triste horror, esa otra cosa
que pudo ser la espada o el escudo
y que no fue? ¿Dónde estará el perdido
antepasado persa o el noruego,
dónde el azar de no quedarme ciego,
dónde el ancla y el mar, dónde el olvido
de ser quien soy? ¿Dónde estará la pura
noche que al rudo labrador confía
el iletrado y laborioso día,
según lo quiere la literatura?
Pienso también en esa compañera
que me esperaba, y que tal vez me espera.
Submitted by 
josevalqui on 2017-02-13
josevalqui on 2017-02-13Last edited by 
Valeriu Raut on 2021-12-20
Valeriu Raut on 2021-12-20Translation
The Lost
Where will my life be, the one that could
have been but wasn't, the happy one
or the one of sad horror, that other thing
that could be the sword or the shield
and wasn't? Where will the lost
Persian or Norwegian ancestor be,
where the chance to not go blind*,
where the anchor and the sea, where the forgetting
of being who I am? Where will the pure
night that is entrusted to the rough farmer
by the illiterate and laborious day,
according to how literature wants it, be?
I also think about the partner
who waited for me, and maybe waits for me.
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*Borges went blind in his late 50s.