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Original Text:
PRÉSENTATION D'ULYSSE A NAUSICA.
A l'aspect du héros souillé de limon noir,
Tout fuit, mais Nausica dans sa pudeur naïve;
Lui dit en rougissant sans quitter sa lessive:
Quel Dieu noble étranger t'amène en mon lavoir?

(Traduction inédite de Mr. Casimir Delavigne).

Translation:
INTRODUCTION OF ULYSSES TO NAUSICAA.
The sight of the hero, dirty with black silt,
causes Nausicaa a problem of guilt
To present him like that to her mother at home
will result in her sleeping at night alone."
(unpublished translation by M. Casimir Delavigne)