by Guillaume Apollinaire （Translated by Donald Revell）

    Under Mirabeau Bridge the river slips away

    And lovers

    Must I be reminded

    Joy came always after pain

    The night is a clock chiming

    The days go by not I

    We're face to face and hand in hand

    While under the bridges

    Of embrace expire

    Eternal tired tidal eyes

    The night is a clock chiming

    The days go by not I

    Love elapses like the river

    Love goes by

    Poor life is indolent

    And expectation always violent

    The night is a clock chiming

    The days go by not I

    The days and equally the weeks elapse

    The past remains the past

    Love remains lost

    Under Mirabeau Bridge the river slips away

    The night is a clock chiming

    The days go by not I