Voices moving in the quiet house
Thud of feet and muffled shutting doors
Out in the night there's autumn-smelling gloom
Crowded with the whispering trees
Across the park
A hollow cry of hounds like lonely bells
The low, red, rising moon
Now herons call
And wrangle by their pool
And hooting owls sail above pale stooks of oats

Waiting for sleep, I drift from thoughts like these
And where to-day was dream-like, build my dreams
Music... a white room below
And someone singing a song
About a soldier, one hour, two hours ago
And soon the song will be ‘last night'
But now the beauty swings across my brain

Ghost of remembered chords
Which still can make such radiance
That I can watch the marching of my soldiers
And count their faces; sunlit faces
The herons, and the hounds
September in the darkness
All fading past me into peace
When the old light comes in
It's as sharp as a knife
You feel the drift in the pub
As the radio cries
September's stars, September's lies
September's stars, September's lies
When the old light comes in
It's as sharp as a knife
You feel the drift in the pub
As the radio cries
I'll know you when I see you

Now the mirrors are misted
But the room is the same
I see the face in the place in the painted lane
Ursa major at the edge of the rain
Ursa major at the edge of the rain
And now the mirrors are misted
But the room is the same
I see the face in the place in the painted lane
I'll know you when I see you