Well and river, inequitable.

A bath in a river is soothing to your skin.

But the river cannot replace the well.

From well water, you sooth your throat.

So the well has no reason to fear the river.

The one who swims in a river

Returns home with renewed vigour.

His desire to swim in the river

Is not his hate to draw from the well.

No grace will the well lose

Because his master visited the river.

No shame does the river has

Because her visitor is not her master.

One will not desert one’s wife

Because the one courted a tart.

24.03.2001, Pmdi