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Under the river shines a parallel world.

People on balconies in the water,

A voluble audience,

Stare up at people on balconies above them,

Actors on a stage;

Smiling yellow windows in the river

Wink at their twins smiling down at them;

Diners on the underwater terrace

Toast their fellow guests on the terrace above;

The concave bridge under water nearby

Welcomes its lover hanging in air—

Water admiring stone,

Mind remembering flesh;

Trees growing upside down in the river

Dream they’re standing upright on the grassy bank.

O mellow images, dream on:

Decorate recollection,

Summon merriment,

Echo laughter.

As night falls,

Go on gleaming like desire in lovers’ eyes.

Painted pictures,

You celebrate conviviality,

The water of life,

Without which we should shrivel.

You bind worlds:

Lives acted on the stage of years

And the memory of lives acted on the stage of years.

Do not cease to quicken our hearts