米沃什“水中仙女”

水中仙女
X姑娘存在的惟一证据
是我的写作。只要我在这里
她就生活在离她所爱之地不远处。
她头发金黄，近乎栗色，
在我们上流社会姑娘们中间很普遍。
她的眼睛是灰色的，鲜见地发蓝，
常发着绿光，她的睫毛修得
带有几分东方色彩。若不是她脸形椭圆。
两颊就会突出。
她的眉弯有些日本色彩。
若非每个独特灵魂（anima）的奥秘，
嘲讽者们就是对的，一个人就会湮没无迹。
但她在这里，在她的国家
就像密茨凯维支歌谣“我爱它”中一位看不见的水中仙女。
她将得以离开或飞逝
与我从这个世界上的消失同时。
所据英译：
A NAIAD
The only proof of the existence of Miss X
Is my writing. As long as I am here
She lives not far from the places she loved.
Her hair was dark blond, nearly chestnut,
Of a tint common among the girls of our gentry.
Her eyes were grey, rarely blue,
More often greenish, the cut of her eyelids
Somewhat oriental. Her cheeks
Would have been protruding if not for her oblong face.
Yet in the arches of her eyebrows something Japanese.
If not for secret of each singular anima
Scoffers would have been right, the trace of a human vanishes.
Yet she is here, in her country
Like an invisible naiad from Mickiewicz's ballad "I love it."
She will be permitted to go away or rather to fly away
Simultaneously with my disappearance from this world.