Tonight when I got your letter for alto and guitar

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Poem by Mark Haviland
Music composed and performed by David Warin Solomons

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Tonight when I got your letter
I went for a walk in the woods
Where a full moon baled by a flume of cloud
and glowing ghostly through the trees
and glistened on a glimmering stream
while the wind as it coasts through the branches
hissed like escaping steam.

And I sat on the bridge that crosses the stream
and settled down to dream a night dream
I dreamed of you somewhere in the sun
As I sat alone in the moon

And I thought of the night when I will set out
To bring you home to me
To a house that looks onto this scene

I thought of the night when I will set out
To bring you home to me
To a house that looks onto this scene

And there where the dark forest path leads down
To the dappled moonlit glade
Two trees stand silent like watchers all a-grey
And in my night-dream
I saw you there smiling a smile of the brae.