Down the swift dark stream you gonBack to lands you once did know!nLeave the halls and caverns deep,nLeave the northern mountains steep,nnWhere the forest wide and dimnStoops in shadow grey and grim!nFloat beyond the world of treesnOut into the whispering breeze,nnPast the rushes, past the reeds,nPast the marsh's waving weeds,nThrough the mist that riseth whitenUp from mere and pool at night!nnFollow, follow stars that leapnUp the heavens cold and steep;nTurn when dawn comes over land,nOver rapid, over sand,nnSouth away! and South away!nSeek the sunlight and the day,nBack to pasture, back to mead,nWhere the king and oxen feed!nBack to gardens on the hillsnWhere the berry swells and fillsnUnder sunlight, under day!nSouth away! and South away!nnDown the swift dark stream you gonBack to lands you once did know!nLeave the halls and caverns deep,nLeave the northern mountains steep