Les Illuminations, Op. 18 - V. Marine (声乐套曲《彩画集》，Op. 18 - 第五首 海景)

Chariots of silver and of copper –

Prows of steel and of silver –

Beat the foam, –

Lift the stems of the brambles –

The streams of the barren parts

And the immense tracks of the ebb

Flow circularly towards the east,

Towards the pillars of the forest, –

Towards the piles of the jetty,

Against whose angles are hurled whirlpools

of light.