Ah, of each night in succession there is something of abandoned coal that consumes itself and falls wrapped in ruins, in the midst of funereal things.[Ay, de cada noche que sucede, hay algo de brasa abandonada que se gasta sola, y cae envuelta en ruinas, en medio de cosas funerales.]

Source:(New Directions, ed. 1973), Residence I (1925-31), The Night of the Soldier, Page 57
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