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Dejo a los sindicatos del cobre, del carbón y del salitre mi casa junto al mar de Isla Negra. Quiero que allí reposen los maltratados hijos
I leave my house by the seaside in Isla Negra to the labor unions of copper, coal and nitrate.
Let them rest there, those abused children of my country,
plundered by axes and traitors, dispersed in its sacred blood, consumed in volcanic tatters.
I want the poor to rest in the clean love that ranged my dominion,
let the obscure be seated at my table, let the wounded sleep in my bed.
Brother, this is my home, enter the world of sea flower and spangled stone that I raised struggling in my poverty.
Here sound was born in my window as in a crescent conch
and then it established its latitudes in my disorderly geology.
You come from burning galleries, from tunnels bitten by hatred from the sulfuric waterfall of the wind;
here I will you peace, the water and space of my oceania.