The Blue Grotto (Percy Eastman Fletcher)

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• (Posted 2022-12-29)  CPDL #72045:     

Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2022-12-29).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 46 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

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Title: The Blue Grotto
Composer: Percy Eastman Fletcher
Lyricist: Florence Hoare
Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: SS
Genre: Secular, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1911
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

1. No North wind is blowing,
So let us be going
The Grotto Azzura
To visit awhile,
The hand must be ready,
The eye must be steady,
Ere vision so lovely
The heart can beguile.

2. By ships gay and queenly
Our boat glides serenely,
By cliff and by hollow
To Ana Capri;
The rocks part asunder,
And then, to our wonder,
The air turns to azure,
To sapphire the sea.

3. No sky of our dreaming,
So lake softly gleaming
Can mirror its glory
So wondrous, so rare;
Like spphire it shimmers,
It glitters, it glimmers,
The Grotto Azzura,
'Tis fairyland there.