Rima XLIX

Why tell me? I know: she's fickle, she's arrogant and vain and capricious: you'll sooner bring forth water from a sterile rock than feeling from her soul. I know that in her heart, nest of serpents, there is not one fiber that responds to love; that she is an inanimate statue...; but ...      she's so beautiful!

¿A qué me lo decís? Lo sé: es mudable, es altanera y vana y caprichosa: antes que el sentimiento de su alma brotará el agua de la estéril roca. Sé que en su corazón, nido de sierpes, no hay una fibra que al amor responda; que es una estatua inanimada...; pero...      ¡es tan hermosa!