Rima XXXIX

That which a savage with clumsy hands carves from a trunk as he fancies a god, and soon is forced to kneel before,         you and I also constructed. We gave real form to a phantom, ridiculous invention of the mind, and having made the idol, sacrificed         our love on its altar.

Lo que el salvaje que con torpe mano hace de un tronco a su capricho un dios, y luego ante su obra se arrodilla,         eso hicimos tu y yo. Dimos formas reales a un fantasma, de la mente ridícula invención, y hecho el ídolo ya, sacrificamos         en su altar nuestro amor.