Chorus.Ho, ho, hinkutty hong.

Melfort.Nothing can let me—not for long.

Now I’m free—we’ll go along.

See the pollards growing there

Like a row of dancing dwarfs;

How they listen, how they peer,

Look and listen, laugh and leer,

Black against the shrunken moon,

That will now be sinking soon,

Sinking in the sucking mud,