Ob robu vode sem si rad
umišljal drug svet pri nogah:
visoki in prostrani svod
obrnjen je slepil oko,
prišel se je z menoj
spoznat par drugih nog;
ko sem ob luži se igral,
je v njej povsem nov svet ležál.

Thus did I by the Water’s brink
Another World beneath me think;
And while the lofty spacious Skies
Reversed there abus’d mine Eys,
I fancy’d other Feet
Came mine to touch and meet;
As by som Puddle I did play
Another World within it lay.

⁓ Thomas Traherne, Sence v vodi / Shadows in the Water