Come Unto These Yellow Sands

 

Amy Beach (1867-1944)
from Three Shakespeare Songs

Text: Shakespeare The Tempest
Act I scene ii

Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands:
Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd,
The wild waves whist,
Foot it featly here and there;
And, sweet sprites, the burden be

 

 

This piece was performed on Octarium’s The Shakespeare Concert, May 2004.