object:1.jlb - Sepulchral Inscription
book class:Borges - Poems
author class:Jorge Luis Borges
subject class:Poetry
class:chapter
INSCRIPCION SEPULCRAL
Para el coronel Isidoro Surez, mi bisabuelo
Dilat su valor sobre los Andes.
Contrast montaas y ejrcitos.
La audacia fue costumbre de su espada.
Impuso en Junn trmino venturoso a la lucha
y a las lanzas del Per dio sangre espaola.
Escribi su censo de hazaas
en prosa rgida como los clarines belsonos.
Muri cercado de un destierro implacable.
Hoy es un poco de ceniza y de gloria.
SEPULCHRAL INSCRIPTION
For Colonel Isidoro Surez, my great-grandfather
His valor passed beyond the Andes.
He fought against mountains and armies.
Audacity was a habit with his sword.
At Junn he put a lucky end to the fight
and gave Spanish blood to Peruvian lances.
He wrote his roll of deeds
in prose inflexible as battlesinging trumpets.
He died walled in by implacable exile.
Now he is a handful of dust and glory.
[Robert Fitzgerald]
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