A Song of Flight
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"A Song of Flight" is a song by Christina Rossetti set to music by Edward Elgar in 1900 as his Op. 31 No. 2.
[edit] Lyrics
- While we slumber and sleep
- The sun leaps up from the deep.
- Daylight born at the leap!
- Rapid, dominant, free,
- Athirst to bathe in the uttermost sea.
- While we linger at play,
- If the year would stand at May!
- Winds are up and away
- Over land, over sea,
- To their goal wherever their goal may be.
- It is time to arise
- To race for the promised prize,
- The Sun flies, the Wind flies.
- We are strong, we are free,
- And home lies beyond the stars and the sea.
[edit] References
- Michael Kennedy, Portrait of Elgar (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0193154145
