Les Berceaux

Les Berceaux
Soloist - Colette Delahunt
Piano - Trudi Carberry
Music by Gabriel Fauré
Lyrics by Sully Prudhomme
Graphics by Amelia Daly
Recorded as part of Pathways CD 2024 (All rights reserved)
Lyrics:
Along the quay the great ships
Sway silently in the swell,
They pay no heed to the cradles
Rocked by women's hands.
But the day of parting will come,
For it is, that women shall weep,
And curious men
Shall seek out alluring horizons.
And on that day the great vessels,
Leaving the diminishing harbour behind,
Shall feel their hulls held back
By the soul of the distant cradles.