Fortress north Cold as glass Friendship south Take your task To the number Nine eight two Through the wood No lion fears In the sky the water veers Small of scale Step across Perspective should not be lost In the center of four alike Small, split, Three winged and slight What we take to be Our strongest tower of delight Falls gently In December night Looking back from treasure ground There’s the spout! A whistle sounds.
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The Verse That Solves the Mystery · First Verse/Second Verse
The Japanese text, paragraph by paragraph, with an English back-translation.
謎を解2篇の詩ようさい要は北ガラスのように冷たく友情は南きみは務めをもって行け8 2という数字へと森を抜けてライオンは恐れず空では水が向きを変える小さなスケール足を進め遠近法は失われてはならないそっくりの4つの中央に小さく、裂けた3つ翼をつけて細いわれわれがもっとも強い悦びの塔と考えるものは12月の夜に穏やかに落ちる財宝の地からふりかえると噴流がある!笛が鳴る第1の詩・ 訳
Fortress north Cold as glass Friendship south Take your task To the number Nine eight two Through the wood No lion fears In the sky the water veers Small of scale Step across Perspective should not be lost In the center of four alike Small, split Three winged and slight What we take to be Our strongest tower of delight Falls gently In December night Looking back from treasure ground There’s the spout! A whistle sounds.
謎を解2篇の詩第2の詩・ 訳宝石がたくさんあるところに上から地面へ15列端から端まで21の中央で3つだけが見張って番をする友人たちの音が午後の時間を満たしながらこれこそは独立した民族だ夜の宿のために宮殿を建てる人びと地中の宝をまもる地の精たちは賞賛する妖精たちはよろこぶこの地の近くで同名の人びとの集まりを
Where there are many jewels Fifteen rows from top to ground From end to end In the center of twenty-one Only three stand watch and guard The sound of friends Filling the afternoon hours This is truly an independent people Who build palaces For their nightly lodging The earth sprites who guard the treasure underground give praise The fairies rejoice Near this place A gathering of people of the same name