Here you will find the Poem On The Water of poet Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme
The sound of bank and water is all I hear, The sad resignation of a weeping spring Or a rock that hourly sheds a tear, And the birch leaves' vague quivering. I do not see the river bear the boat along The flowering shore flits past, and I remain; And in the watery depths that I skim, The reflected blue sky flutters like a curtain. Meandering in their sleep, you might say the waters Waver, no longer sure where the bank lies: And the flower thrown in hesitates to choose. And like this flower, all that man desires Can settle on the river of my life, Without teaching me which way my wishes lie.