A yellow roughness in the land

Round Soria the land is dry and cold. Over the hills, the barren ranges, through green bits of meadow, up the cindery peaks the spring advances, leaving its small white daisies scattered in the fragrant grasses. The earth is not reborn: the country dreams... - from 'The Soria Country' by Antonio Machado, trans. Alan S. Trueblood In 1909 the Spanish poet Antonio Machado (1875-1939), a leading…