• Once upon a moonlit night, as I pondered the paper, white
    That one last fallen letter, from my late and great amour
    While I sat, quietly humming, from far away there came a drumming
    As if some ghostly voice a-calling, calling all on earth to war
    “’Tis nothing but the wind a-calling” I murmur “calling all on earth to war
    But here I wait for my lost amour

    That time in blustery September that I so clearly remember
    As it was the last September, before the war was nothing more
    Earnestly I sort the morning;-as I saw the page adorning
    The name of whom I was mourning, mourning since not long before
    Whose death I’d dreaded, since we wedded, I’d heard of not long before
    But who I’ll mourn for evermore

    And the silent night emerging into dawn that I was urging
    Thrilled me – filled me with delight and magic that I’d never felt before
    But until then, its glory waiting, for my pain to start abating
    So long I waited, anticipating, anticipating my life once more
    When the time was right for life to start, anticipating my life once more
    And where to go forevermore

    And then at last my heart grew stronger and its resistance lasted longer
    Before my last dying breaths it’s beating all the more
    On that night I thought life had ended but my mind at last was mended
    And so I wait ‘til time has ended so I live forevermore
    It’s time to start to forget it all so I live forevermore
    My life begins here like before

    Time has past my pain has faded in memory of years I’ve wasted
    But that long night I’ve long remembered will haunt me still evermore
    A time when pain over came more who loved and lost in that Great War
    The time had come for change and pain to be forgotten evermore
    Every thought of pain and woe to be forgotten evermore
    The time for life is at the door