The best way to squander a weekend
In indolent repose, is to sit by a river.
And to watch it with adherence,
With cool breeze swaying your hair.

Shadowed beneath the luscious trees,
The emerald grass and jagged rocks are her guards.
She scatters the wealth of tranquillity,
Over people who come to admire her.

On and on it flows through the landscape,
Like strips of glossy azure ribbon.
Far down within its *****,
Swim the crystal fishes over the pearly pebbles.

The banks of her give soft, serene, cool shade
To the infants of Mother Earth.
The birds sing the chansonnette ,
And amplify your anthem of pacific flowing.

Summer wind floats and the butterflies flutter,
And the eddies gleam and quiver.
O blue diadem!
Keep on showering your River Bliss on us.