Fare well
in
Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca
by Federico García Lorca
translated by W. S. Merwin
New Directions

If I die,
leave the balcony open.

The little boy is eating oranges.
(From my balcony I can see him.)

The reaper is harvesting the wheat.
(From my balcony I can hear him.)

If I die,
leave the balcony open!

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