Sasha21 Jun 2004
Daggar's a typo. Damn votes will erase if I change it tho.
Using spake for spoke would be completely inappropriate since this poem is somewhat more colloquial than that (at least it's meant to be.) RosalÃa de Castro was the first poet in centuries to write in her native Galician, (which is not unlike medieval portuguese) rather than Spanish. Thus her poetry, like Sappho's, is filled with colloquialisms mixed in with slight (and I do mean slight) archaisms. So spake for spoke would be completely out of place in a translation of DeCastro