Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, XXXV

Translated from the Spanish by Mason Carnes

If, in a book, of all our wrongs
      The story should be traced,
And in our souls, as on its leaves,
      They should be all effaced,
I love you so, your love has left
      Such traces in my breast,
That were you to blot out one wrong,
      I'd blot out all the rest!

Credit

From Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1891) by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. Translated from the Spanish by Mason Carnes. This poem is in the public domain.