The creek went down with a broken song,'Neath the sheoaks high;The waters carried the song along,And the oaks a sigh.
The song and the sigh went winding by,Went winding down;Circling the foot of the mountain high,And the hillside brown.
They were hushed in the swamp of the Dead Man's Crime,Where the curlews cried;But they reached the river the self-same time,And there they died.
And the creek of life goes winding on,Wandering by;And bears for ever, its course upon,A song and a sigh.
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Canonical recordPOEM-000662
Copy-textIn the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses, 1903 lifetime reprint of the 1900 revised edition, print pp. 204–204
Source recordSRC-000060
Rights determinationRGT-000096
Text statusCANONICAL TEXT READY
TranscriptionDIPLOMATIC_D208
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