Listen to the whisper From the headlong height The fall of waters! Rapid as the light... A green wudpecker Flies through the twisted branches It guards the crystal waves Which howl and hiss! The hell of waters! From rock to rock! Overthrows its majesty Along the thriving valley Charming the eye with dread Horribly beautyful! Embrace the darkest rocks While the Hades opens its gates Listen to the wishper Terror and delight The roaring waters is cradling your mind And mounts toward the sky Where the stars pierce distant nights Like hope upon a death-bed Which shines so bright In rays of scarlet light! Flowers like sapphire adorn the shores An Iris sits between the infernal surge, From rock to rock Beneath the glittering morn! Janus gathers it for the new dawn Under his hand A new nymph is born. From time to time In the Clitumnus sight!