Mirabeau Bridge

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



From Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire, translated by Donald Revell.