The Shining Host
In vain you try
To smother my song:
A million children
In chorus sing it
Beneath the sun!
In vain you try
To break my verse
Of affliction:
The children sing it
Under God!
From: Gabriela Mistral – The Poet and Her Work
By: Margot Arce de Vazquez
Translated by: Helene Masslo Anderson
New York University Press 1964
Links
Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral
Books on Gabriela Mistral
( Nobel Prize for Literature ) ( Female Poets )