Natália Correia

Natália de Oliveira Correia GOSE GOL (September 13, 1923, in Fajã de Baixo, São Miguel Island, Azores – March 16, 1993, in Lisbon) was a Portuguese writer, and was the author of the lyrics of Hino dos Açores, the traditional anthem of The Azores.

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• Uma obscura e inquieta castidade:
  pôs uma flor para mim no jardim mais secreto
  num horizonte de graça e claridade
  intangível e perto.

  Promessa estática no luar
  da densidade em mim corpórea.
  não é a culpa, é a memoria
  da primeira manhã do pecado
  sem Eva e sem Adão.

  Só o fruto provado
  e a serpente enroscada
  na minha solidão.

  • Translation: A dark and troubled abstention:
    Put a flower for me in the most secret garden
    In a horizon of grace and clarity
    Which was untouchable and next.

    A static promise in the light of the moon
    Of the density which was corporal in me.
    It is not the fault, it is the memory
    Of the first morning of the sin
    Without Eve and Adam.

    Only the proven fruit
    And the rolled serpent
    In my loneliness.

  • Obscura Castidade (Dark Abstention).

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