I don't want to lose Thee!

I don’t want to lose Thee, o English language!

However, every day I feel your presence going away

Out of my body, my mind and my heart.

I don’t want to lose Thee, o English language!

Sweet language of Shakespeare, Byron, Blake, Scott,

Hemingway, Chaplin, Washington, Kennedy and the Clintons.

I don’t want to lose Thee, o English language!

Although I’ll ever be a foreigner to Thee,

I shall practice Thee every time, in order to retain Thee forever with me.

I never want to lose Thee, o English language!

Itatiba, May 10th 2007