The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (Live At Union Chapel)
You have gone

The dark journey that leaves no returning

It's fruitless for me to mourn you
But who can help mourning

To think of life that did laugh on your face

In the beautiful past left so desolate now

When youth seemed immortal so sweet it did weave

Heaven's halo around you

Earth's hope to deceive you were the fairest and dearest

Where many were fair to my heart you were nearest

The year has its winter as well as its May

The sweetest leave us and the fairest decay

The nearer the fountain more pure the stream flows

To think of life that did laugh on your face

In the beautiful past left so desolate now

When youth seemed immortal so sweet it did weave

Heaven's halo around you

Around you

Earth's hope to deceive

Around you

Around you
The nearer the fountain more pure the stream flows