Standing still on silver shores
Watching daylight fade to gray
Hurrying into evermore
Ne'er to return again
Sorrows still are soaring closer
Black and darkness now revealed
Night is dawning faster, faster
Light and life and love in vain
Forward into dooms unknown
Toward a place by candle shown
Where new seed must ere be sown
Down new, darkened country lanes.
Pennies to the wishing well
Make one request, but who can tell
If good or evil now befall
Young lovers in a fresh-dug grave
Dancing now in moonlit beams
Wondering what the world intends
Time endures beyond life's seams
Never to return again.
