It’s so mysterious, the land of tears.[translation by Richard Howard]It is such a secret place, the land of tears.[translation by Katherine Woods][C’est tellement mystérieux, le pays des larmes.]
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Every piece of that marvellous world was a silent tear.
But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
