Led by an irresistible desire, I undressed, and plunged into the water.

It clothed me as with a new sense and its object both in one.

The waters lay so close to me, they seemed to enter and revive my heart.

I rose to the surface, shook the water from my hair, and swam as in a rainbow, amid the coruscations of the gems below seen through the agitation caused by my motion.

Then, with open eyes, I dived, and swam beneath the surface.