as inner spirit smiles and dies
The water shifts
The shade, it lifts
And all around it multiplies
Her mother's sigh sends a chill
the darkness grows and evil spills
The loving defy
The knowing deny
Tonight it calls and gives her thrills
The flicker-flut of those in pain
The pitter pitter-pat of dropping rain
The river flows
The story goes
And white fine streets are red with stain
