The Blue Bird
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
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 (1861-1907)
“The Blue Bird” was performed by the Houston Chamber Choir in 2011-2012 season during the Northeast Tour to New York and Connecticut.
