The Blue Bird

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

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.

— Mary Coleridge (1861-1907)

“The Blue Bird” was performed by the Houston Chamber Choir in 2011-2012 season during the Northeast Tour to New York and Connecticut.