Chapter I

You told me that you love the water,
The cascades' roaring, rushing water,
The rivers' gently flowing water,
The pools' mysterious silent water,
The erring brooklets' whisp'ring water,
The oceans' moaning, hissing water,
The oceans' seething, sighing water,
It's thundering, caressing water.
My love for you is also as the water,
The roaring, rushing, silent, whisp'ring water.
The thundering, the seething, sighing water.

Oh, love me, for my love is like the water,
Did you not tell me that you love the water?