Out In The Dark [EDWARD THOMAS poem set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 06/06/2014

Here is another poem by Edward Thomas which I have set to music.

Free score/midi/backing/mp3 available on request

The video was shot in the New Forest between Lymington and Beaulieu.
Out in the Dark
by Edward Thomas
 Intro: Am G x 4
Am G F C
Out in the dark over the snow
F C G Am
The fallow fawns invisible go
Am C Dm
With the fallow doe ;
Am C Dm
And the winds blow
F C G Am
Fast as the stars are slow.
 
Stealthily the dark haunts round
And, when the lamp goes, without sound
At a swifter bound
Than the swiftest hound,
Arrives, and all else is drowned ;
 
Bb Am Gm F
And star and I and wind and deer,
Bb Am Dm Am
Are in the dark together, - near,
Dm Am
Yet far, - and fear
Dm C
Drums on my ear
Dm G A7
In that sage company drear.
 
How weak and little is the light,
All the universe of sight,
Love and delight,
Before the might,
If you love it not, of night.