An old pond — a frog jumps in — the sound of water. Not a translation. The poem is built as an expanded similar triangles poem — six terms across three equal ratios: Frog is to The Self as Noise is to The Mind as Splash is to the Old Pond. Subtract one numerator from another together with their matching denominators, so that (Frog − Noise) over (The Self − The Mind) equals Splash over the Old Pond, solve for Frog, and the equation above is what algebra hands back.