«Nature is a sphinx. / The truer she kills you / with her eternal riddle, / it's more than likely, / for centuries, / the truer she has fooled you.»
«Sva priroda je sfinga. Čini sve / Da čovjeka povuče u glib zovom, / Pa možda zagonetke u svem ovom / I nema, nit je bilo ikakve.»
«Lord, send your comfort / to him who, during summerТs scorching heat, / like some poor beggar past a garden, / along a hot road drags his weary feet, who gazes in passing across a fence / at the shades of trees, at valleysТ golden grain / and at the inaccessible coolness / of softly b...»
«Utjehu svoju, Bože, dadni / tom tko za sparnih ljetnih žega / kao kraj vrta prosjak jadni / po kolniku se vrelom gega. Tko promatra kroz tu sparinu / drveća sjene, trave vlati, / i nedostupnu hladovinu / tratina svijetlih i bogatih. Nisu te sjene izokola / njemu se rasule od grana...»