VOCES8 sings 'The Blue Bird' by Charles Villiers Stanford at the VOCES8 Centre in London.

TEXT by Mary E. Coleridge

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.