title: A Song of Flight
text: # A Song of Flight
  
  A Song of Flight è una canzone scritta dal compositore inglese Edward Elgar nel 1895, come sua Op. 31, n. 2, con parole tratte da una poesia di Christina Rossetti.
  
  La canzone fu eseguita per la prima volta dal baritono irlandese Harry Plunket Greene nella St. James's Hall il 2 marzo 1900, insieme a After, Op. 31, n. 1.
  
  ## Versi
  
  A SONG OF FLIGHT
  
      While we slumber and sleep
      The sun leaps up from the deep.
      Daylight born at the leap!
         Rapid, dominant, free,
         Athirst to bathe in the uttermost sea.
      While we linger at play,
      If the year would stand at May!
      Winds are up and away
         Over land, over sea,
         To their goal wherever their goal may be.
      It is time to arise
      To race for the promised prize,
      The Sun flies, the Wind flies.
         We are strong, we are free,
         And home lies beyond the stars and the sea.
  