[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