That time is dead for ever, child Drowned and frozen, dead for ever We look on the past and stare aghast Spectres wailing pale and ghast The stream we gazed on and then rolled by Its waves return, return not And we, yes, we stand in a lone land Like the tombs to mark memory That time is dead for ever, child Drowned and frozen, dead for ever We look on the past and stare aghast Spectres wailing pale and ghast The stream we gazed on and then rolled by Its waves return, return not And we, yes, we stand in a lone land Like the tombs to mark memory