I HAVE APPROACHED THE GULFS PROFOUND

by: Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1836-1870)

      have approached the gulfs profound
      Of earth and heaven,
      And gauged their depths or with my eyes
      Or with my mind.

      But when I neared a heart's abyss
      And bent to behold it,
      My soul and my eyes drew back
      So deep it was, so dark!

      --Translated by Mary A. Ward
"I Have Approached the Gulfs Profound" is reprinted from "A Spanish Romanticist: Gustavo Becquer." Macmillan's Magazine, February, 1883.

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