I have kissed the summer dawn Before the palaces Nothing moved The water lay dead. Battalions of shadows Still kept the forest road I walked, walking warm And vital breath While stones watched And wings rose soundlessly. A clear pale light A flower who told me its name I came upon the goddess Then one by one I lifted her veils Across the meadow Where I betrayed her to the cock. I hunted her ¡And I hunted her! And smelled the scent Of her immense body. Dawn and the child fell together At the bottom of the wood When I awoke, it was noon. ¿Life was it really this? ¡Life!