Pablo Neruda - Girl Lithe and Tawny lyrics

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Pablo Neruda - Girl Lithe and Tawny lyrics

Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy, and you luminous eyes and your mouth that has the smile of water. A black yearning sun is braided into the strands of your black mane, when you stretch your arms. You play with the sun as with a little brook and it leaves two dark pools in your eyes. Girl lithe and tawny, nothing draws me towards you. Everything bears me farther away, as though you were noon. You are the frenzied youth of the bee, the drunkenness of the wave, the power of the wheat-ear. My somber heart searches for you, nevertheless, and I love your joyful body, your slender and flowing voice. Dark bu*terfly, sweet and definitive like the wheat-field and the sun, the poppy and the water.