For though it should revisit the same acre of meadow in the same hour, it will have made an ample sweep between-whiles; many little streams will have fallen in; many exhalations risen towards the sun; and even although it were the same acre, it will no more be the same river of Oise.

即使它在同一时辰重访同一片草地，也已在其间绕行许远；许多溪流已汇入，许多水汽已升向太阳；纵然草地未改，瓦兹河也已不再是原来的河。