Manuel Aguilera

“With Pride on their Horn”

2013

Between Calle Tomillo and Calle Acacia

Orihuela painter Manuel Aguilera painted this beautiful mural of a portrait of Miguel Hernández next to townhouses, the church tower, Cruz de la Muela and the seminar. It captivates one with his use of floral patterns in a plant pot and a vine leaf. In the painting, the verse With Pride on their Horn from the Winds of the People carry me along poem.

Asturians of bravery,
Basques of reinforced stone,
Valencians of joy
and Castilians of soul,
worked like the earth
and with the grace of wings;
Andalusians of lightning
born amongst guitars
and forged on the
torrential anvils of tears;
Extremadurans of rye,
Galicians of rain and calm,
Catalans of firmness,
Aragonese of age-old caste,
Murcians of dynamite
planted like fruit trees,
Leonese, Navarrans, masters
of hunger, sweat and the axe,
kings of the mines,
lords of labour,
men who, amongst the roots,
like valiant roots yourselves,
go from life to death…
from nothing to nothing:
there are people who, like weeds,
want to put a yoke on you,
a yoke which you must leave
broken across their backs.