Twenty men crossing a bridge，
Into a village，
Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges，
Into twenty villages，
Or one man
Crossing a single bridge into a village.
This is old song
That will not declare itself . . .
Twenty men crossing a bridge，
Into a village，
Are
Twenty men crossing a bridge
Into a village.
That will not declare itself
Yet is certain as meaning . . .
The boots of the men clump
On the boards of the bridge.
The first white wall of the village
Rises through fruit-trees.
Of what was it I was thinking？
So the meaning escapes.
The first white wall of the village . . .
The fruit-trees . . .