I sit and look out

I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all
oppression and shame,
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves,
remolseful after deeds done,
                    
                              (...)

I observer the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon
laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
All these - all the meanness and agony whithout end I sitting look out
upon,
See, hear, and am silent.

                                       W.W: By the roadside.



Séntome a contemplar tódalas dores do mundo e toda a opresión e a vergoña,/ Escoito os convulsivos chorimicos, segredos, dos xoves en pelexa consigo mesmos, arrepentidos dos seus actos,/ (...) /Observo as humillacións e degradacións impostas polos orgullosos aos obreiros, aos pobres, aos negros;/ Todas estas cousas, tódalas vilezas e agonías sen fin séntome a contemplalas,/ A ollar, a escoitar, e permanezo mudo.