Roll-roll-roll-roll,roll-roll-rolling down the hole!

Heave ho!

Splash plump!

Down they go, down they bump!

Down the swift dark stream you go!

Back to lands you once did know!

Leave the halls and caverns deep

Leave the northern mountains steep

Where the forest wide and dim stoops in shadow grey and grim!

Float beyond the world of trees

Out into the whispering breeze,Past the rushes, past the reeds

Past the marsh’s waving weeds

Through the mist that riseth white

Up from mere and pool at night!

Follow, follow stars that leap

Up the heavens cold and steep;

Turn when dawn comes over landOver rapid, Over sand,South away!

And South away!

Seek the sunlight and the da

Back to pasture, back to mead, where the kine and oxen feed!

Back to gardens on the hills where the berry swells and fills under sunlight, under day!

South away! and South away!

Down the swift dark stream you go!

Back to lands you once did know!