I searched for a certain Sydney Carter song for many years, I heard Martin Carthy sing it on a Sunday afternoon TV show that had Carter and Nadia Cattouse as the principle performers,and it stuck(or part of it did) I asked Martin at a festival for the words, and he said he couldnt help as he had only learned it for that performance and didnt keep it in his repetoire. I found it through a link provided in the Mudcat a few years ago and it seems very apropos at this time.
Mr Carter may you find, beyond the door, that which you would wish for,

Like the Snow
By Sydney Carter

Tell me, where did Helen go?
Here is where she had her dwelling.
She has vanished like the snow -
Where, there is no way of telling;
Here is where she had her dwelling.
All the while they come and they go -
Where, there is no way of telling;
She has vanished like the snow.

What became of Heloise?
Abelard - he was her lover -
Notre Dame or Saint Denys;
Where he went I can't discover.
Abelard, he was her lover.
All the while they come and they go -
Where, there is no way of telling;
She has vanished like the snow.

Joan came riding from Lorraine -
Everybody knows the story.
England burnt her in Rouen;
Theirs the shame and ours the glory,
Everybody knows the story -
All the while they come and they go -
England's shame and France's glory,
She has vanished like the snow.

Where the time and where the place is -
That is what I'd like to know,
Where their glory and their grace is
When they vanish like the snow.