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Las playas de Chile VIII
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22 LAS PLAYAS DE CHILE VIII Senor, si til hubieses conocido a mi padre 10 habrfas amado igual que yo, el se parecfa en verdad a los angeles -esto, claro, si Ie pasas el plumeroLo hubieses querido y no porque escribiera versos, sino porque sobre todo se podrfa decir de el: fue un hombre. No siempre siguio el camino correcto, pero no fue mas malo que otros y amo a esta patria como el que mas. Jamas entro a una Iglesia, pero eso Senor til podrfas entenderlo, estas playas fueron el Santuario que querfa. 1. Inmaculadas esas eran las playas de Chile reftejandose contra el cielo a la amanecida allf mismo subiendo frente a ellos 1I. En que sus hijos fueron la marejada banando estas costas y la playa la lejana de estos cielos chilenos mmensos prendidos alia mojandoles la prometida Ill. Donde Chile sera finalmente el impresionante mar reftejandose con el cielo para que solo el les bane la promesa cumplida que aguardaron como un alba mareandolos de alegrfa por todas partes tendiendoles la costa en que padre e hijo se abrazaron THE BEACHES OF CHILE VIII Lord, ifyou had known my father you would have loved him as I do, he really looked like the angelsthat is, ifyou took a feather duster to himYou would have loved him and not because he wrote verses, but especially because it could be said of him: he was a man. He didn't always walk the straight and narrow, but he was no worse than others and he loved this country as much as anyone. He never entered a Church, but you would understand that, Lord, these beaches were the Sanctuary he wanted. I. Immaculate those were the beaches of Chile reflecting against the sky at dawn right there rising up before them 11. In which its children were the suif washing these coasts and the beach the remoteness of these Chilean skies Immense aflame bathing their betrothed for them there lll. Where Chile will finally be the impressive sea reflecting with the sky so that only it will bathe the fulfilled promise they awaited like a dawning day staggering them with joy opening to them everywhere the coast on which father and child embraced 23 ...