The diamond necklace played the pawn   Hand in hand some drummed along, oh   To a handsome man and baton      A blind class aristocracy   Back through the opera glass you see   The pit and the pendulum drawn      Columnated ruins domino      Hung velvet overtaken me   Dim chandelier awaken me   To a song dissolved in the dawn      The music hall a costly bow   The music all is lost for now   To a muted trumpeter swan      Columnated ruins domino   Canvass the town and brush the backdrop   Are you sleeping, brother John?      Dove nested towers the hour was   Strike the street quicksilver moon   Carriage across the fog   Two-step to lamp lights cellar tune   The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne      The glass was raised, the fired grows   The fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting   While at port adieu or die   A choke of grief, heart hardened I   Beyond belief a broken man too tough to cry      Surf's up, aboard a tidal wave   Come about hard and join   The young and often spring you gave   I heard the word, wonderful thing   A children's song