Reir Llorando

Watching the garrick, actor from England
The people as they applauded him would say
You are the funniest on earth... And the happiest!
And the comedian laughed

Victims of spleen, the high lords
In their darkest and heaviest nights
Would go see the king of actors
And turn their spleen into laughter

Once, before a famous doctor
Approached a man with a somber look
I suffer, he said, from a horror so terrible
Like the paleness of this face of mine

Nothing causes me charm or attraction
I don't care about my name or my fate
In an eternal spleen, dying alive
And my only passion is death

Travel and you will be distracted
I have traveled so much!
Look for readings
I have read so much!

To be loved by a woman
If I am loved!
Acquire a title
Noble I was born!

You may be poor
I have riches!
Do you like flattery?
I hear so much!

Who are your friends?
My sorrows!
Do you go to cemeteries?
A lot... A lot

Do you have witnesses of current life?
Yes... But I don't let them impose yokes on me
I call the dead my friends
And the living I call my executioners

Your illness leaves me perplexed, said the doctor
But I must not frighten you
Take this advice today as a prescription
Only by seeing garrick can you heal

And garrick will make me laugh?
Yes, I swear to you; the most reluctant and austere
Society eagerly seeks him
Everyone who sees him dies of laughter
He has an astonishing artistic grace!

But... What troubles you?
So said the patient: I am garrick
Change the prescription for me!

How many are there tired of life
Sick of sorrow, dead of tedium
Make others laugh like the suicidal actor
Without finding a remedy for their evil

How many times laughter is accompanied by tears
No one should trust in the joy of laughter
Because in souls devoured by pain
The soul cries when the face laughs

When faith flees, calm dies
When only thorns our feet tread
The storm of the soul throws to the face
A sad lightning; the smile

The carnival of the world deceives so much
That laughter is brief masquerades
Here we learn to laugh with tears
And also to cry with laughter!

The carnival of the world deceives so much
That laughter is brief masquerades
Here we learn to laugh with tears
And also to cry with laughter!