Maidenly lake, fathomless lake, br Stay as you were once, overgrown with rushes, br Idling with a reflected cloud, for my sake br Whom your shore no longer touches. br br Your girl was always real to me. br Her bones lie in a city by the sea. br Everything occurs too normally. br A unique love simply wears away. br br Girl, hey, girl, we repose in an abyss. br The base of a skull, a rib, a pelvis, br Is it you? me? We are more than this. br No clock counts hours and years for us. br br How could a creature, ephemeral, eternal, br Measure for me necessity and fate? br You are locked with me in a letter-crystal. br No matter that you're not a living maid.