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Incidental music to Electra (Preview)

by Ralph Vaughan Williams | Orchestra and chorus

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home!<br />

ELECTRA (spoken)<br />

What boots this cruse that I carry?<br />

O, set free my brow!<br />

For the gathered tears that tarry<br />

Through the day and the dark till now,<br />

Now in the dawn are free,<br />

Father, and flow beneath<br />

The floor of the world, <strong>to</strong> be<br />

As a song in the house of Death:<br />

From the rising up of the day<br />

They guide my heart alway,<br />

The silent tears unshed,<br />

And my body mourns for the dead;<br />

My cheeks bleed silently,<br />

And these bruised temples keep<br />

Their pain, remembering thee<br />

And thy bloody sleep.<br />

Be rent, O hair of mine head!<br />

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