In his marvelous book 'No Moon Tonight', Don Charlwood says how he was moved to the core by the poignancy of the music and the refrain issuing from the gramophone playing 'So Deep is the Night' over and over as they were waiting for the call to move out to the flight line from the warm hut where the crews were togged up ready to go.
Tristesse (So Deep Is The Night)
So deep is the night
No moon tonight
No friendly star to guide me with its light
Be still my heart
Silent lest my love should be returning
From a world far apart
So deep is the night
O lonely night
On broken wings my heart has taken flight
And left a dream
Very true C'pn Dart about 'All the Green Year'. A beautiful evocative tale. Used to be set in secondary schools all over the land.
The poetic soul, let us not say with passing of Don, RIP too.