’Mid the lower lands the frolic watery,
Keeping up old customs on the grassy lea,
Finding that the road stile would be crossed by me.
Learning the defects of the door-frame’s carpentry,
Fracture of the tying of the torch by thee,
Looking the smith’s bill-hook’s cutting to see.”
After that, the man put the bird in the cooking vessel, and having placed it on the hearth [to cook], asked, “Mango Bird, was that day good, [or] is to-day good?”
Then the bird says,
“Both that day was good and to-day is good
Through eating the mangoes of a Mango tree,