> “What a shame to come to love the land that will never be mine.”

This reminded me of a song about the related job of arriero, aptly titled "El arriero", which includes these lyrics:

"Las penas y las vaquitas se van por la misma senda. Las penas son de nosotros, las vaquitas son ajenas"

Which (loosing the musicality) can be translated as:

"The sorrows and the cows go down the same road. The sorrows belong to us, the cows do not"