Pastorcita. Short Fables by Rafael Pombo

Rafael Pombo was a Colombian writer, poet and fabulist and one of the main figures of romantic poetry in Spanish. The success of his fables and stories for children have transcended time and today are still as fresh and popular. Pastorcita is one of the children's fables written by Pombo that teache

Rafael Pombo was a Colombian writer, poet and fabulist and one of the main figures of romantic poetry in Spanish. The success of his fables and stories for children have transcended time and today are still as fresh and popular.

Pastorcita is one of the children's fables written by Pombo that teaches children to try to solve life's problems, not to stop crying for what happens, not to give up, but to get up and persevere in what one wants.

Short story: Pastorcita

Pastorcita lost her sheep, and who knows where they will be.

Do not be angry, shepherd, who heard your complaints and they themselves will soon come.

And they will not come alone, they will bring their tails, and sheep and tails great feast will they give.

Pastorcita falls asleep and dreaming she hears them balar,

She wakes up and calls them right away: little sheep, sheep come, and deceived tends to cry.

Do not cry, Pastor, that girl who cries very soon we hear her laugh and sing.

She gets up happily, hoping she'll see them soon maybe,

and she saw them, but she gave a shout observing that they left their tails behind: Ay Ay, my little sheep, poor raboncitas!

Where are my tails? I will not see them anymore?

But walking around the whole flock, another cry one afternoon he let go,

when a slice of an old chestnut tree loaded with tails found.

Drying in the wind, two, three, up to a hundred, there one after another hung saw them.

He gave a sigh and a blow on the forehead, and tried everything he could invent,

honey, sewing, varied ingredient, for so much cobbler mend.

I look for the little tail of each sheep and when I see them as before, they started dancing.

Author:

Rafael Pombo