Until I Missed You - After We Fall

Oh!

Willie, is it you, dear, safe, safe at home?

They did not tell me true, dear, they said you would not come;

I heard you at the gate, and it made my heart rejoice

For I knew that welcome footstep and that dear familiar voice

Making music in my ear in the lonely midnight gloom

Oh, Willie, we have missed you-welcome, welcome home

We’ve longed to see you nightly, but this night of all

The fire was blazing brightly, and lights were in the hall

The little ones were up till 'twas ten o’clock and past

Then their eyes began to twinkle, and they’re gone to sleep at last;

But they listened for your voice till they thought you’d never come

Oh, Willie, we have missed you-welcome, welcome home

The days were sad without you, the nights long and drear

The dreams have been about you, oh, welcome, Willie, dear

Last night I wept and watched, by the moonlight’s cheerless ray

Till I thought I heard your footstep, when I wiped my tears away;

But my heart grew sad again, when I found you had not come;

Oh, Willie, we have missed you-welcome, welcome home