Les Amants de Teruel [English translation]

These lovers

now lying side by side

have met to walk forth

next to one another.

They met in death

since life could not understand them.

They met in love,

since hate could not reach them.

And the leaves fall and fall

on their nuptial bed.

May the earth be kind to them,

kind to the lovers from Teruel

united at last in shadows...

They're sleeping now

next to one another.

They sleep, free of

the daybreak disquiet.

Hand in hand

immobile like in a prayer,

renewing their vows

in the quiet eternity of stones.

Night ushers them in,

everything goes back to normal.

Their embrace remains

forever lingering

like an organ note...