The Old Stone House/The Ruin [DE LA MARE poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2018-09-02

The Old Stone House

    By Walter De La Mare 

C* B* A* G    
Nothing on the grey roof, nothing on the brown,
F C D*
    Only a little greening where the rain drips down;
C* B* A* G    
    Nobody at the window, nobody at the door,
F C D*
    Only a little hollow which a foot once wore;
Em* A7 Em* D
    But still I tread on tiptoe, still tiptoe on I go,
C G Am7
    Past nettles, porch, and weedy well, for oh, I know
Em* A7 Em* D
    A friendless face is peering, and a clear still eye
C D Am7 Bm7
    Peeps closely through the casement as my step goes by.

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The Ruin - Poem by Walter de la Mare

Em C D Bm
When the last colours of the day
Em C D Em
Have from their burning ebbed away,
B7 C D
About that ruin, cold and lone,
Em C G B7
The cricket shrills from stone to stone;
And scattering o'er its darkened green,
Bands of fairies may be seen,
Chattering like grasshoppers, their feet
Dancing a thistledown dance round it:
E D A B7
While the great gold of the mild moon
Em C B7
Tinges their tiny acorn shoon. 
Walter de la Mare

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