In The Dying of Daylight [DE LA MARE poem set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2019-04-18

In The Dying of Daylight (Walter de la Mare)

E/A D/A
In the dying of the the daylight - 
D F#m
With my book, and alone - 
A E/A
Of a sudden my heart
D F#m
Paused, still as a stone.

I watched, I listened;
There was nothing to hear;
Yet I knew, in the silence,
Some living things near.

D F#m
I crept to the staircase,
G A
And stayed - there to see
Bm - F#m - Bm - C
A child at the window
Em D
Who not yet had seen me.

Am Em
She had stooped her small head,
Am Em
In the darkening air,
Bm - F#m - Bm - C
Low over the flowers
F Am
In a bowl that was there,

Her chin on their petals;
Her clear, sidelong eyes
Gazing out of the glass
At the light of the skies.

She was not of this earth - 
Lost, solitary,
In the stealth of the house
She was sharing with me:

Yet never have I,
Awake, or at night,
Seen in any strange face
So intense a delight;

So hungry a gaze,
Fixed, enraptured and still,
On the green of the grass,
And the light on the hill;

Dm C
As if parched up with thirst
F C Dm
For the loved that no more
F Am
To a heart lost to earth,
Bb C
Earth could ever restore.

D F#m
And Yet - when I turned,
G A
But scarcely had stirred
Bm F#m Bm F#m
At a sound like the note
Bm F#m Bm C
Of a late evening bird,
Em D
Then looked back - she was gone;
Am G F
As if she, too, had heard


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