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Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga on April 7, 1889, in Vicuña, Chile, the first Latin American author to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. Enormously popular in her country, she became a household

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by Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957)

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This everlasting tiredness will get better one day

and the soul will tell the body that it doesn't want to follow

dragging its weight down the pink way

where the men who are happy to live go.

You will feel them at your side digging boldly,

as another sleeper arrives in the quiet city.

I will wait until I am completely covered . . .

And then we will talk for an eternity!

Only then will you know why, though immature

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