1. The youth lives on though death claimed him away
The living's like the hidden 'neath the sand's disarray

2. I see people coming to the pool of loss
Some miss the mark, some drink their full no less

3. For those now passed my tears ever flow
I weep indeed, but for myself I weep and know

4. Each living youth will soon follow who went ahead
And every morrow will join with yesterdays long dead

5. So may God keep you from the path of those
Who lonely died and lonely, now in peace, repose

6. I say, though others said, he went his destined way
With no fuss or circumstance, he passed away

7. As if the night's mourning did but darker grow
To see the sunshine banish all its weary woe

8. Beside your worth all else to me's diminished
Naught can console me for the loss I've finished