Galleon de España

SPANISH GALLEON (1938)

Evaristo Ribera Chevremont
 
 
     In the blue South Seas, the Spanish galleon.
The galleon, bathed by the virgin sun, it gleams.
Accompanied by the pride that comes of fist and heart.
It brandishes the commanding flag of Castile.
 
     To the galleon, caressed by foam and wind,
Islands and continents toast the treasure
that it carries, the most brilliant of all shipments
it brought from the Indies, a land where the ground is gold.
 
     Masses of steel and blood speak their strength,
evoking the temper of the conquistadors,
whose history encompasses the surreal and the savage
in which principles and values are purified.
 
     Through the immense seas, fragrant and rich,
sails the Spanish galleon. Pristine, powerful, pink,
America watches it pass from the peaks
of its great mountains, where the condor roosts.