Es una adaptación del poema de Joan Alcover (1854–1926) que a su vez se había servido de una antigua y popular canción infantil mallorquina para inspirarse.
Girando la vista hacia atrás vigila las sombras del abolengo, y de la nueva primavera sabe donde se esconde la semilla.
[8] O mysterious Balanguera, like a spider of fine art, her spinning wheel emptieth and off our lives it pulleth.
Like a Parca she pondereth, and seweth well tomorrow’s cloth.
Her glimpse to history she turneth, O’er shades of ancestry she watcheth, and the new spring she owneth; Of the seed’s cover she knoweth, and that the stump can climb higher, and the deeper its roots can go.