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Lo colp

Lo colp

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Lo món me creia feliç
L’enveja em feia la gala
Mes jo perdia el cantar
Com a l’hivern la calàndria


Dormien en sol mortal
Les cançons en la meva arpa
En ella i en lo meu cor
Que anava arronsant les ales


Dormien, Du, Du
Dormien, Du, Du
Dormien, Du, Du
Dormien


Quan lo colp de vostra mà
Fa deixondir la meva ànima
Com los aucells adormits
En los niuets de la branca


Lo món me creia feliç
Fa deixondir la meva ànima
Mes jo perdia el cantar
Fa deixondir la meva ànima


Al sentir baix en lo tronc
Una forta destralada
Al sentir baix en lo tronc
Una forta destralada


Du, Du
Du, Du
Du, Du


Dormien en sol mortal
Les cançons en la meva arpa
En ella i en lo meu cor
Que anava arronsant les ales


Quan lo colp de vostra mà
Fa deixondir la meva ànima
Com los aucells adormits
En los niuets de la branca


Al sentir baix en lo tronc
Una forta destralada
Al sentir baix en lo tronc
Una forta destralada


Una forta destrala’

Original poem

Facsimile of the original poem by Jacint Verdaguer

Poem published in the book Flors del calvari (1896)

 

JACINT VERDAGUER

 

Portrait of Jacint Verdaguer

(17 May 1845 – 10 June 1902)
Folgueroles – Barcelona (Catalonia)

 

Priest and poet, he is the great founder of modern Catalan poetry. His life was deeply marked by his noble, rebellious, and curious character. He lived in a permanent inner struggle between the life of a poet sustained by elites and his convictions of Christian humility. The author of L’Atlàntida and Canigó, he joined epic, nature, language, and mysticism. He ended up persecuted and marginalized by the Church and the bourgeoisie after a deep public and spiritual conflict caused, among other factors, by his work as an exorcist and by his Franciscan writing and convictions. It was during this crisis that he wrote the poem ‘Lo Colp’. A central figure of the Renaixença, his work is monumental and foundational.

 

 

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