Where forest stream went through the wood
And silent all the stens there stood

Of tall trees, moveless, hanging dark
With mottled shadows on their bark


[Refrain]

As faint as deepest sleeper's breath

An echo came as cold as death
Long are the paths, of shadow made
Where no foot's print is ever laid


Refrain:
No moon is there, no voice, no sound

Of beating heart; a sigh profound

Once in each age as each age dies

Alone is heard. Far, far it lies

The Land of Waiting where the Dead sit,

In their thought's shadow, by no moon lit

Choir:

Upon the plain, there rushed forth and high
Shadows at dead end of night and mirrored in the sky


Far far away beyond might of day
And there lay the land of the dead of mortal cold decay