SCOTTA, you are drifting from me,

O’er the billows of life’s tide;

You and I have sailed together,

With our frail barks side by side.

You are drifting with the current,

But my feeble oar is light,

Too light to follow; and, in anguish,

I must watch you drift from sight.

Drifting, gliding, moving onward,