North Sea Radio Orchestra - Shelley's Skylark lyrics

Somewhere afield here something lies In Earth's oblivious eyeless trust That moved, that moved a poet to prophecies A pinch of unseen, unguarded dust The dust of the lark that Shelley heard And made immortal through times to be Though it only lived like another bird And knew not its immortality Lived its meek life; then, one day, fell A little ball of feather and bone And how it perished, when piped farewell And where it wastes, are alike unknown Maybe it rests in the loam I view Maybe it throbs in a myrtle's green Maybe it sleeps in the coming hue Of a grape on the slopes of yon inland scene Go find it, faeries, go and find That tiny pinch of priceless dust And bring a casket silver-lined And framed of gold that gems encrust And we will lay it safe therein And consecrate it to endless time For it inspired a bard to win Ecstatic heights in thought and rhyme And we will lay it safe therein And consecrate it to endless time For it inspired a bard to win Ecstatic heights in thought and rhyme