(El Escultor, disponiéndose a (The Sculptor, getting ready to
marchar) leave.)
Pues, señor, es cosa hecha: Well sir, it is done:
el alma del buen don Diego the soul of good Don Diego
puede, a mi ver, con sosiego can, in my opinion, know
reposar muy satisfecha. its rest in complete satisfaction.
La obra está rematada The work is unfurled
con cuanta suntuosidad with as much sumptuousness
su postrera voluntad as his last will required, yes,
dejó al mundo encomendada. entrusted to the world.
Y ya quisieran, ¡pardiez!, And, by God, every rich man
todos los ricos que mueren who dies should want to see
que su voluntad cumplieren the living celebrate their memory
los vivos, como esta vez. as here I have done.
Mas ya de marcharme es hora: But it's time I was away,
todo corriente lo dejo, I leave it all in order, I will
y de Sevilla me alejo be leaving Seville
al despuntar de la aurora. at the break of day.
¡Ah! Mármoles que mis manos Ah! Marble polished
pulieron con tanto afán, with such care, by my hands,
mañana os contemplarán tomorrow the Sevillians
los absortos sevillanos; will gaze at you, astonished:
y al mirar de este panteón and seeing the true proportion
las gigantes proporciones, of this enormous pantheon,
tendrán las generaciones the future generation
la nuestra en veneración. will hold ours in veneration.
Mas yendo y viniendo días Some things as days come and go,
se hundirán unas tras otras, one by one, sink again
mientra en pie estaréis vosotras, while yours will remain
póstumas memorias mías. a memory of me. Oh!
¡Oh!, frutos de mis desvelos, fruit of my waking eyes,
peñas a quien yo animé stones to which I gave life
y por quienes arrostré for whom I bore the strife
la intemperie de los cielos; of the intemperate skies;
el que forma y ser os dio he who gave you form and being
va ya a perderos de vista; will now lose you from his sight;
¡velad mi gloria de artista, since you will live longer than I,
pues viviréis más que yo! watch over my glory, unseeing.
Mas ¿quién llega? But who is approaching?