1. Linger by the water when it smiles
Upon the blooming cherry, unseen

2. Frost had almost ruined its beauty
Freezing even its tears like my hopes

3. I dreamt of it dead, wounded
It recovered but stuck in blood

4. Shedding white shrouds that scattered
Replaced by dreams of light

5. Daughters of love and art shine with purpose
Like ghosts shine for poets

6. Raised by the intimate east, then came
Feelings of kinship, nations of loyalty

7. They fluttered in yearning like an arrow
Yearning for its origin and sky

8. Fluttered in loyalty to the land that celebrated
And honored them over peers

9. They lit the lantern as a symbol for its feast
As if it held for the feast a treasure of light

10. If it settled in this lake, it had no repose
Save the repose of shyness

11. In it kinds of passions that would not
Settle, but spilled with no call

12. Do you hear it? I hear its poetry
Songs of love for another lament

13. Do you see it? I see some of it
Mirrors clarified by arts of mirrors

14. It reflected in the water its abundant joy
And it became a flame or melted wit

15. If lovers visited from every place
How many lovers in my exile pined

16. And the carefree birds near it
Are meanings of company and kinship

17. The humming of bees sang to its blooms
Above choirs of flowers effortlessly

18. I'm ashamed that among them I fall short
My song contains no song within