| Back | That night, on going to bed, I forgot to prepare in imagination the Barmecide supper of hot roast potatoes, or white bread and new milk, with which I was wont to amuse my inward cravings: I feasted instead on the spectacle of ideal drawings, which I saw in the dark; all the work of my own hands: freely pencilled houses and trees, picturesque rocks and ruins, Cuyp-like groups of cattle, sweet paintings of butterflies hovering over unblown roses, of birds picking at ripe cherries, of wren's nests enclosing pearl-like eggs, wreathed about with young ivy sprays. |
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| Front | Aquella noche, al acostarme, no pensaba, como de costumbre, en una cena de patatas asadas calientes o de leche fresca y pan blanco, lo que constituía mi distracción habitual. En vez de ello, me parecía ver en la oscuridad una serie de ideales dibujos salidos de mi lápiz: casas y árboles pintados a mi gusto, rocas, ruinas pintorescas, vaquitas, mariposas volando sobre purpúreas rosas, pajaritos picoteando cerezas, nidos de avecitas llenos de huevos como perlas y rodeado de festones de hiedra... |
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