An excerpt from "La Flor del Olvido" by Joaquina García Balmaseda, around 1860
"Seek the blessed flower
That lives within the soul,
Whose beneficial influence
Erases all that time inscribe"
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"If they give a name so ugly,
I will shred my poems;
Such a word
Doesn’t fit me,
I do not want it;
I would rather
The wind take hold of
My voice,"
From "Ecos del Alma" by Rosario de Acuña.
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