In vain you try
To smother my song:
A million children
In chorus sing it
Beneath the sun!
In vain you try
To break my verse
Of affliction:
The children sing it
Under God!
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From: Gabriela Mistral – The Poet and Her Work
By: Margot Arce de Vazquez
Translated by: Helene Masslo Anderson
New York University Press 19https://www.poetseers.org/nobel-prize-for-literature/gab/gabp/6-2/4
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( Nobel Prize for Literature) ( Female Poets)