A Fiery Word

I looked back o’er the hills

And eerie did I see?

A fiery flame burning high,

That earth cravers did fear;

It ate up every bit in bits

Till not a green was spared;

And but a lonely speck I dropped

And fiery flames I see.

 

I looked back at my past

And eerie did I see?

A friend’s heart all torn in bits,

Old faithful smile was gone;

His strength all dissolved to not’n,

His pain run down his veins;

And only but a word I spoke

And hell, what I made him.