by Richard Garnett (1835 - 1906)

Language: English 
Our translations:  CAT GER ITA
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 moon 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.

Composition:

    Set to music by Edward Elgar, Sir (1857 - 1934), "Where corals lie", op. 37 no. 4, published 1899, first performed 1899 [ alto and piano ], from Sea Pictures, no. 4, London: Boosey & Hawkes

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "On es troben els coralls", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Wo die Korallen blüh'n", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Dove giacciono i coralli", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 114