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MY FAITH
I don't trust the rose
of paper
that I made so often
with my hands.
Nor do I trust the other
rose, the true one,
daughter of sun and season,
bride of the wind.
I trust in you, whom I never made,
in you, whom others never made,
in you, round
certain chance.
Pedro Salinas, 1929
English Translation by David Lee Garrison