Continued:

"We, too, were much impressed....then Hugo Aleman, the poet, took up the same book, and on the same flyleaf, he wrote under Carrera's writing, another stanza:

"When life is lost to view
Behind a curtain of years,
there will live, to flower over time,
love and disenchantment.

Sorry!! I gave the translation first. Call me space cadet. Here's the original:

"Cuando la vida se pierda
tras una cortina de anos
viviran a flor de tiempo
amores y desenganos. "

"And all of us were startled when Jaime Valencia, the painter, grabbed the book, and proceeded to write four very attractive lines of verse:

"Arcilla cocida y dura
alma de verdes collados
barro y sangre de mis hombres
Sol de mis antepasados."

Clay, hardened and fired in the kiln;
Soul of harvested green;
earth, and blood of men,
The sun of my ancestors.

to be continued