THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Hotel Suisse,
Ospedaletti-Ligure,
Riviera,
Italy.

21 Dec., 1913

1000 thanks.
They are splendid: now here are two more.
A.  C^d you alter the 1st 3 lines of verse II of Aunt Jane’s song so as to make the pause in the sense come at the end of the line, as it does in verse I – if not I can alter the tune, but wd. rather not.  At present they go
 O tender blossoming
 O little mouths that cling –
   a wife –

(pause in music, have it same tune as verse I)
 Finds etc.

B. C^d you make a 2^nd verse in the same metre to Mary’s 4 lines beginning
 In the night time I have seen you
 riding, riding –
R.V.W.