Boy Leading a Horse, 1906

Pablo Picasso ( Spain, 1881-1973)

Oil on canvas

Museum of Modern Art, New York

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PICASSO'S "BOY LEADING A HORSE"
(after the Portuguese of Zilda Mamede)
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It is a naked horse and a naked boy
who have nothing at all in their nakedness
except loneliness shared, and dim destiny.
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No one knows whether the horse mourns the evening,
or if the boy's mourning somehow touches the horse.
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When they draw near they are always withdrawn,
aloof from that evening to which they belong,
(in the grey plane that encloses them).
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If from one or the other comes suddenly
clarion call or lamenttion, we should know
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it is because it is evening for both of them:
The boy's evening comes with the first shining star,
the horse's with the sight of hay --
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Just two in time, more lonely with the dusk.
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Robert Phillips
The Pregnant Man
Doubleday, New York, 1978
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