You made no secret pact with the lagoon and you entered into no covenant with the ocean; yet when your needle dropped into the stream you proposed to retrieve it.
O kò bá òkun máwo, o ò bá ọ̀sà mulẹ̀; abẹ́rẹ́ ẹ ẹ́ bọ́ sódò o ní o ó yọ ọ́.