City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Simon Halsey My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
My love dwelt in a northern land [A tower dim]1 in a forest green Was his, and far away the sand, And gray wash of the waves [was]2 seen, The woven forest boughs between.
And through the northern summer night The sunset slowly died away, And herds of strange deer, silver white, Came gleaming through the forest gray, And fled like ghosts before the day.
And oft, that month, we watch'd the moon Wax great and white o'er wood and lawn, And wane, with waning of the June, Till, like a brand for battle drawn, She fell, and flamed in a wild dawn.
I know not if the forest green Still girdles round that castle gray, I know not if, the boughs between, The white deer vanish ere the day. The grass above my love is green, [My]4 heart is colder than the clay