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Salvador Díaz Mirón

Salvador Díaz Mirón was born on December 14, 1853, in the Mexican port city of Veracruz. His father, Manuel Díaz Mirón, was a journalist and politician. Diaz Mirón was a politician and journalist as well as a poet

Corpse, The

by Salvador Díaz Mirón (1853–1928)

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Like the bole of a fallen mountain tree.

A clear, majestic, pure and lofty brow.

Black brows together drawn in the fine

and arching line that images the flight

of a bird lightly sketched against the sky.

Nostrils like a falcon's beak. Pallor

of ivory hair. Already verdureless

the pine fell and lies, part ringed with hoar.

The eyeball, stretching the ill-sutured lids,

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