Therefore let the waters flow slowly and without undue haste.”
Another poem says:
“Two phœnixes come down from heaven with their triumphal chariot.
Six dragons rise from the bottom of the sea bearing a mountain on their backs.”
Does not this remind you of the “Isoline” of Catulle Mendes?
Let me quote a few more lines:
“What charitable hand has scattered all these lotus seeds,
Which at one and the same time flower in every corner of the city?”
All this literature will show what a brilliant fête it is.
There are, of course, besides, family meetings, parties, where wine and poetry help to bring the solemnity to its end indoors; while, in the streets, the pleasures of the joyous crowd are prolonged until the morning.