Los
martillos caían resonando con un
espantoso estruendo sobre el yunque, al
que veinte trabajadores vigorosos sujetaban
las barras del hirviente metal, que palpitaba y gemía al sentir los golpes.
Ya se extendían los brazos del signo
de nuestra redención, ya comenzaba
a formarse la cabecera, cuando la diabólica
y encendida masa se retorcía de nuevo
como en una convulsión espantosa,
y rodeándose al cuerpo de los desgraciados
que pugnaban por desasirse de sus brazos
de muerte, se enroscaba en anillas como
una culebra o se contraía en zigzag
como un relámpago.
The hammers were falling down resounding with a frightful din on the anvil, to which twenty vigorous workpeople were holding the bars of the boiling metal, which was fluttering and wailing on having felt the blows.
There were already spreading the arms of the sign of our redemption, either one began to form the head, when the diabolical and burning mass was writhing again like in a frightful convulsion, and surrounding itself to the body of the poor wretches who were fighting for desasirse of his arms of death, it was winding in rings as a snake or was contracting in zigzag as a lightning.