From “The Ladies’ Paradise”, 1901
Words by George Dance
Music by Ivan Caryll
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- When the quiet dusk is falling
And the stars come out and glisten
Don’t you hear the night-wind calling
As you close your eyes and listen?
“Come away, when darkness hovers
Far over sea and shore
To the land of lovers, dear to dreaming lovers
Beyond the Dusky Door”
Refrain
Night that is crowned with poppies
Is beckoning with her hand
Under the Dusky Door of dreams
That leads to fairyland
Dear, let us hear and wander
And come back to day no more
Lost in the dreamland yonder
The land of the Dusky Door
- Over us the moonlight quivers
Through enchanted leafy mazes
Like a path across the rivers
Like a lake across the daisies
Down the way of light together
We go with love before
Leaving wintry weather, rain and bitter weather
Beyond the Dusky Door - There within the woodland hidden
Nightingales are singing for us
And our kisses unforbidden
Fill the pauses of their chorus
There the flowers that darkness closes
Awake for evermore
In the land of roses, love and rest and roses
Beyond the Dusky Door
Last time:
Night that is crowned with poppies
Is beckoning with her hand
Under the Dusky Door of dreams
That leads to fairyland
Dear, let us hear and wander
And come back to day no more
Lost in the dreamland yonder
The land of the Dusky Door