Pleading - 1908 - Elgar - Op.48.No.1

James Pitt-Payne, London and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia - 04 Mar 2002

Will you come homeward from the hills of Dreamland,
Home in the dusk, and speak to me again?
Tell me the stories that I am forgetting,
Quicken my hope, and recompense my pain?
Will you come homeward
from the hills of Dreamland,
I have grown weary, though I wait you yet;
Watching the fallen leaf, the faith grown fainter,
The mem'ry smoulder'd to a dull regret.
Shall the remembrance die in dim forgetting
All the fond light that glorified my way?
Will you come homeward
from the hills of Dreamland,
Home in the dusk, and turn my night to day?

Soft karaoke
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Pleading 1908
Music by Sir Edward Elgar OM KCVO
Lyric by Arthur L. Salmon
copyright 1908 by Novello and Co. Ltd.
copyright renewed 1936
sequence by Dr.Pitt-Payne in London UK
and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia
completed Monday 04 March 2002 at 13.04
in association with Doug Grierson
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