Wielkieś mi uczyniła pustki w domu moim,
Moja droga Orszulko, tym zniknienim swoim!
Pełno nas, a jakoby nikogo nie było:
Jedną maluczką duszą tak wiele ubyło.
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Thou hast made all the house an empty thing,
Dear Ursula, by this thy vanishing.
Though we are here, 'tis yet a vacant place,
One little soul had filled so great a space. | (tr. Dorothea Prall, 1920) | The void that fills my house is so immense
Now that my girl is gone. It baffles sense:
We all are here, yet no one is, I feel;
The flight of one small soul has tipped the scale. | (tr. Barańczak and Heaney, 1995)