Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Sea Pictures, op. 37: IV - Where Corals Lie
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Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano.
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Conducted by Simon Wright
2006.
The deeps have music soft and low
When winds awake the airy spry,
It lures me, lures me on to go
And see the land where corals lie.
By mount and mead, by lawn and rill,
When night is deep, and noon is high,
That music seeks and finds me still,
And tells me where the corals lie.
Yes, press my eyelids close, 'tis well,
But far the rapid fancies fly
The rolling worlds of wave and shell,
And all the lands where corals lie.
Thy lips are like a sunset glow,
Thy smile is like a morning sky,
Yet leave me, leave me, let me go
And see the land where corals lie.
