"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."
— Jan Kochanowski

January 1, 1970

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VIII — 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)