Judith Bingham/C.V. Stanford - The Drowned Lovers

Music: Judith Bingham/C.V. Stanford
Text: Judith Bingham/Mary E. Coleridge
Performed by Stare at the Sun
A.J. Keller, conductor
Lauren Randolph, mezzo soprano
Live Performance
Trinity United Methodist Church
Wilmette, IL
April 30, 2023
Audio & Video Engineering: Sean Keenan
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In the deepest reaches of the lake,
I and my love do lie.
I clung to him, and pulled him down
And so we both did die.
Th’uncaring clear blue waters
Over our heads did close,
And shoals of fishes, sightlessly,
In clouds around us rose.
His pale green eyes were cold in death,
His love had been a lie,
But now we share a watery death,
Forever intertwined.
- Judith Bingham
The lake lay blue below the hill, O’er it, as I looked, there flew Across the waters, cold and still, A bird whose wings were palest blue. The sky above was blue at last, The sky beneath me blue in blue, A moment, ere the bird had passed, It caught his image as he flew.
- Mary Coleridge