Merlin's Lament

In a castle keep, in a vault of stone, in a house at the end of the lane
 And old man weeps in his door alone and he sings out this mournful refrain
 She will not come back, she will not come back
 Though the mountains fall down to the sea
 And the sky burns to cinders and the river runs black
 She will not come back to me
 No lightnin' rede from his books of lore, and the staff in the corner, no fire
 And the crystal ball always bright before is grey as the dust of desire
 She will not come back, she will not come back
 Though he call on the powers that be
 They will cipher this message in his cold zodiac
 She will not come back to me
 And joy my love was a dancin spring, and life was the touch of her lips
 And a brook ran mad to my cave downstream from the miracle hills of her hips
 She will not come back, she will not come back
 Though the stars hang their tears in the trees
 And tireless Orion lies spent in his tracks
 She will not come back
 She will not come back
 She will not come back to me