I found these lyrics scrawled on two pages of the fridge magnet notepad a few months after writing them down. I could still remember the tune, which is based on an old Scottish melody. I have no idea why I didn't record them. There was a fourth verse started but crossed out, so I was probably trying to finish the song. Reading it again, I felt it was complete. So here it is. The guitar is my Lowden O-12 in open D tuning with Newtone strings, recorded acoustically - one microphone for voice, one for guitar.

Lyrics

When I was young and in that dawning
I saw you white as the lily blooms
Beneath the shading tree
Then would I have given you that morning
All of my day for just one hour with thee

As I grew older in the summer
Seeing you ride so fair
Oer the ferny lea
Then would I gladly have forsaken
One year of life for just a day with thee

Now as the Autumn gilds the sunset
Slow the leaves fall from
The shading tree
I would offer you my last days
If I could spend just one more hour with thee