John Barlas - Oblivion lyrics

Oblivion! is it not one name of d**h? Nay, is not Lethe d**h's most dismal name, d**h growing hour by hour within our frame, d**h settling slowly in our brain, the breath Of the soul ebbing, so that he who saith, I am to-day as yesterday the same, Lies, for his thoughts are fled like smoke from flame, And like the dew his sorrow vanisheth. Changed is the river, though the waves remain, Which rocks of slowlier-changing circumstance Plough up in every day of chafing foam. Changed is the river, gone, gone to the main, Yesterday's dream and last year's happy chance, And the heart's thoughts again return not home.