Christopher Finzi、wilfred brown、English Chamber Orchestra - 5. The Salutation

[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:25.88]These little limbs these eyes and hands which here I find [00:34.35]This panting heart where with my life begins [00:41.77]Where have ye been behind what curtain [00:50.18]Were ye from me hid so long [00:54.61]Where was in what abyss my new-made tongue [01:14.53]When silent I so many thousand thousand years [01:22.20]Beneath the dust did in a chaos lie [01:29.56]How could I smiles or tears [01:33.82]Or lips or hands or eyes or ears perceive [01:41.23]Welcome ye treasures which I now receive [02:04.76]From dust I rise and out of nothing now awake [02:16.65]These brighter regions which salute my eyes [02:23.49]A gift from God I take the earth [02:35.53]The seas the light the lofty skies [02:42.65]The sun and stars are mine if these I prize [03:07.74]A stranger here strange things doth meet strange glory see [03:16.95]Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear [03:24.73]Strange all and new to me [03:31.44]But that they mine should be who nothing was [03:41.88]That strangest is of all yet brought to pass