| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | El Charro | | By José Santos Chocano |
| | From “Peruvian Poems”
Translated by John Pierrepont Rice
A COAT of silk, cheap jewels he loves to flaunt, | |
| Some tawdry lace that serves him for a frill: | |
| He grasps a pistol butt, and seems to taunt | |
| The world and grip it in his ugly will. | |
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| Striding his bronco with its braided tail, | 5 |
| Crowned by a hat that tapers to a cone— | |
| One feels no bribe nor violence could prevail | |
| To make him change his saddle for a throne. | |
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| Proud of his seat, he cracks his rawhide lash. | |
| The brute obeys, a spark flies from his hoof. | 10 |
| He plunges; and with pistol at his sash | |
| His master strides him, haughty and aloof. | |
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| These seem no man and horse in mortal strife, | |
| But some Olympic figure come to life. | | | | |
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