That Time is Dead for Ever, Child

1.

That time is dead for ever, child! / Drowned, frozen, dead for ever! / We look on the past / And stare aghast / At the spectres wailing, pale and ghast, / Of hopes which thou and I beguiled / To death on life's dark river.

2.

The stream we gazed on then rolled by; / Its waves are unreturning; / But we yet stand / In a lone land, / Like tombs to mark the memory / Of hopes and fears, which fade and flee / In the light of life's dim morning.