Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 / Act 1 - "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades" - Jon Vickers, Teresa Cahill, Anne Pashley

Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 / Act 1 - "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades" - Jon Vickers, Teresa Cahill, Anne Pashley

  • Album: Britten: Peter Grimes

  • Year of release: 1977
  • Language: English
  • Duration: 4:07

Below is the lyrics of the song Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 / Act 1 - "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades" , artist - Jon Vickers, Teresa Cahill, Anne Pashley with translation

Lyrics " Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 / Act 1 - "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades" "

Original text with translation

Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 / Act 1 - "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades"

Jon Vickers, Teresa Cahill, Anne Pashley

Now the Great Bear and Pleiades where earth moves

Are drawing up the clouds of human grief

Breathing solemnity in the deep night

Who can decipher

In storm or starlight

The written character

Of a friendly fate

As the sky turns, the world for us to change?

But if the horoscope' s bewildering

Like a flashing turmoil of a shoal of herring

Who can turn skies back and begin again?

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