'TIS I

by: Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1836-1870)

      f on thy balcony thou seest thy flowers
      Quiver and sway,
      And thinkest that murmuring through them
      Sigheth the wind,
      Know then that hidden 'neath their leafy green
      'Tis I that sigh!

      If o'er thy shoulder thou hearest a murmur
      Vaguely resounding,
      And think'st by thy name there hath called thee
      Some distant voice,
      Know that amid the shadows which surround thee
      'Tis I that call!

      If thy heart, waking in the depths of night,
      Quivers and sinks,
      As on thy lips thou feel'st a breath,
      A breath of flame,
      Know that unseen beside thee
      'Tis I that breathe!

      --Translated by Mary A. Ward
"'Tis I" is reprinted from "A Spanish Romanticist: Gustavo Becquer." Macmillan's Magazine, February, 1883.

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