Bewitched [DE LA MARE poem set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2018-09-10

Bewitched

    By Walter De La Mare 

Dmaj7    
 I have heard a lady this night,
Cmaj7/A
        Lissom and jimp and slim,
Amaj7/E
     Calling me - calling me over the heather,
Dmaj7
        'Neath the beech boughs dusk and dim.

Dm7
     I have followed a lady this night,
Am
        Followed her far and lone,
Gm
     Fox and adder and weasel know
A7
        The ways that we have gone.

Gm - C x4     
I sit at my supper 'mid honest faces,
Gm - C x2
        And crumble my crust and say
Dm7 C
     Nought in the long-drawn drawl of the voices
F C Dm7
        Talking the hours away.

     I'll go to my chamber under the gable,
        And the moon will lift her light
     In at my lattice from over the moorland
        Hollow and still and bright.

     And I know she will shine on a lady of witchcraft,
        Gladness and grief to see,
     Who has taken my heart with her nimble fingers,
        Calls in my dreams to me:

     Who has led me a dance by dell and dingle
        My human soul to win,
     Made me a changeling to my own, own mother,
        A stranger to my kin.


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