Narciso Tondreau Valín was a Chilean poet, journalist, and scholar from Santiago de Chile. He published one book of poems, Penumbras (Imprenta Cervantes, 1887), and was a close associate of Rubén Darío. He died on December 16, 1949.
“Yesterday and To-Day” appeared in Pan-American Poems (The Gorham Press, 1918). Recording published in Poem-a-Day on October 9, 2021.