Galician Poems Translated

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    “This is what poems are:
    with mercy
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    they are the tongue’s wrangle,
    the world’s pottage, the rat’s star.”
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    “You’ve strung your breasts
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    —Amaru (c. seventh century A.D.?, Kashmirian king, compiler, author of some of the poems in the anthology which bears his name. translated from the Amaruataka by Martha Ann Selby, vs. 31, Motilal Banarsidass (1983)