The flower of Ilolay

It was an old woman

that in the eyes she had a bad

the poor person didn't cease

of crying.

A doctor told him:

I could you to cure

if your children bring me

a flower of the Ilolay.

And the poor old lady

didn't cease of crying,

because it was not anything easy

to find

that liru-liru flower,

Lirulay.

But the children that to their mother

they wanted it to which more,

they solved to leave far

to look for,

that wonderful flower

that to the blind men view she gives.

Bernardo

He goes rent the story, grandfather,

as vos you count it to me.

You have not said that the children

they were three!

DON JUAN

Good, they are already.

And the three, going together

they walked, until giving

with three paths, and they took

a path each one.

The little one that to their mother

he wanted more,

it was right for their path

without stopping,

asking to the travelers

for the flower of Ilolay.

And one night, tired

of to travel and to ask,

in the hole of some hardships

he went to bed to rest.

And he cried, and to the poor person

To the blind one he remembered

unceasingly.

And it happened that of those rocks

in the gloomy hollow,

when coming the midnight

their family advice,

it celebrated Satan.

And the devil

in horrible saraband

they began to dance.

The devils' men

the more devil

Charcoal fell the last one

of great flower in the buttonhole!

Charcoal! he screamed when seeing him

Furious, Satan,

petulant Charcoal,

remove that!

How do you come to my presence

with the flower of God fashion

that to the blind men view it gives?

It put the tail among the legs

and beginning to tremble,

Charcoal threw far

the decoration of their buttonhole.

And the little one picked up it,

and there he goes,

He runs, he runs that runs you,

that he runs you Satan!

the road retracing

without stopping,

and it won the crossroad

with the flower of Ilolai.

Their siblings awaited him,

and when looking him to return

with the flower that they were not able to

those very student minstrels to find,

they killed him, envious,

they killed him without pity!

they buried him there close

of the road, in a barren,

and they left to their mother

with the flower of the Ilolay.

And it cured the old woman

of their wrong,

and to the small one remembering

unceasingly,

she asked to her, two children:

Where my son, where is it...?

«We didn't see him», they answered

the perverse ones, «that maybe

misplaced with their bad ones

companies will walk».

And the days and the months

they spent, and to the home,

never, never the poor one

it returned more!

And once a sheeperd

that it went by the barren,

a cane of tubes

he saw when happening.

With the cane he made a flute,

and beginning to play,

he listened the sheeperd

of the notes to the compass,

that the cane sighed

with sepulchral lament:

«sheepperd, don't play me

neither you stop me to play:

my brothers have died me

for the flower of Ilolay»

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