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Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes - "Now the Great Bear"
Jon Vickers (tenor) as Peter
Heather Harper, soprano
(Peter)
Now the great Bear and Pleiades
where earth moves
Are drawing up the clouds
of human grief
Breathing solemnity in the deep night.
Who can decipher
In storm or starlight
The written character
of a friendly fate
As the sky turns, the world for us to change?
But if the horoscope's
bewildering
Like a flashing turmoil
of a shoal of herring,
Who can turn skies back and begin again?
(Silence again. Then muttering in undertones.)
(Chorus)
Hes mad or drunk.
Why's that man here?
(Nieces)
His song alone would sour the beer.
(Chorus)
His tempers up.
O chuck him out.
(Nieces)
I wouldnt mind if he didnt howl.
(Chorus)
He looks as though hes nearly drowned.
(Boles) (staggers up to Grimes)
Youve sold your soul, Grimes.
(Balstrode)
Come away.
(Boles)
Satans got no hold on me.
(Balstrode)
Leave him alone, you drunkard.
(Goes to get hold of Boles.)
(Boles)
Ill hold the gospel light before
The cataract that blinds his eyes.
(Peter) (as the drunk stumbles up to him)
Get out.
(Grimes thrusts Boles aside roughly and turns away.)
(Boles)
His exercise
Is not with men but killing boys.
(Boles picks up a bottle and is about to bring it down on Grimess head when Balstrode
knocks it out of his hand and it crashes in fragments on the floor.)
(Auntie)
For Gods sake, help me keep the peace.
Dyou want me up at the next Assize?
(Balstrode)
For peace sake, someone start a song.