"Mirabeau Bridge" Guillaume Apollinaire

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