[Verse 1]

Wind away the hours

Laid up to the sun

Hide behind two towers

When all the world's work is done

[Verse 2]

Set a life upon the way to bide

All that bodies become

Left alone along the lay to bind

All the mind has shunned

[Verse 3]

Gather up the flowers

Born up from the womb

Hasten lest they sour

A deed brought to the tomb

[Verse 4]

Catch the longing dream that time beguiles

From cradle to the bone

Lonely limbs just limp in life awhile

To touch the weathered home

[Verse 5]

Careless as a willow

Constant as an oak

Ages churn and wallow

Through hands pass as they grope

[Verse 6]

Past and future splayed astride

The hollow heaving chest

Gnarled hands curve to inscribe

The fading notion useless

[Verse 7]

Heedless shall we swallow

Our riddles never spoke

With the merit of no answer

To meliorate the joke

[Verse 8]

Wind away the hours

Laid up to the sun

Hide behind Two Towers

When all the world's work is done