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The Blue Thistle

Carlos Gardel

El Cardo Azul

Entre mil flores silvestres
En un campo muy gallardo
Se alzaba un virtuoso cardo
Con sus penachos de tul

Y del rocío las perlas
Blanquecinas parecían
Y bañadas se veían
Las hebras del cardo azul

Que contraste caprichoso
En ese instante ofrecía
Al ver que el Sol deshacía
Ese manto virginal

En finísima llovizna
Caían las gotas al suelo
Y tan azul como el cielo
El cardo otra vez quedaba

Pobre flor, que en otro tiempo
Eras lozana y hermosa
Más por la parca afanosa
Vino tu vida a cortar

Sin tener en cuenta cardo
Que al privarte de la vida
Eras reliquias perdidas
Como sueño al despertar

The Blue Thistle

Among a thousand wild flowers
In a very gallant field
Stood a virtuous thistle
With its tufted plumes

And the dew's pearls
Seemed whitish
And bathed were
The strands of the blue thistle

What a whimsical contrast
It offered at that moment
Seeing the Sun dissolve
That virginal cloak

In a very fine drizzle
The drops fell to the ground
And as blue as the sky
The thistle was once again

Poor flower, that in another time
You were lush and beautiful
But by the relentless fate
Your life was cut short

Without considering, thistle
That by depriving you of life
You were lost relics
Like a dream upon waking up

Escrita por: C. Gardel / J. Razzano