"Every stone says: God is very far!"  - Lorca

I can't find a serviceable English translation online. And Claude did better than I could do by a mile so here is that one below. There are souls that have…Federico García Lorca, from Libro de poemas (1921) There are souls that have blue morning stars, mornings gone withered among the leaves of time, and chaste corners that keep an old murmur of longings and dreams. Other souls have the aching ghosts of passions. Fruit with worms in it. Echoes of a burnt voice that comes from far off like a current of shadow. Memories emptied of weeping and crumbs of kisses. My soul has been ripe a long time now, and it crumbles away, cloudy with mystery. Young stones gnawed by reverie fall on the waters of my thoughts. Every stone says: "God is very far!"