Five Dark Miles

Five Dark Miles

Day be over, be off and gone;
be like water too quickly drawn
be like money once cast upon
the temple of old Babylon.

Day be easy, be good to take;
be like loving, and sweet like cake;
be like heart we so easy break
for that devil, that old king snake.

Day be happy, be like song;
be like river when he roll along;
be like baby, she do no wrong;
she so pretty, she weak and strong.

Five dark miles and I walking slow;
five dark miles to that place below,
where wind he cold, he always blow;
five dark miles I do darkly know.