Where Corals Lie

"Where Corals Lie" is a poem by Richard Garnett which was set to music by Sir Edward Elgar as the fourth song in his song-cycle Sea Pictures.

By mount and mead, by lawn and rill, —When night is deep, and moon is high, That music seeks and finds me still, —And tells me where the corals lie.

It alternates between the regular off-beat quaver accompaniment and, at the end of each verse, a single colla parte bar that slows down the tempo to emphasise the text and which requires sensitive accompaniment.

[3] The third stanza is the most challenging, with frequent colla parte, a suspension of the syncopation and an accelerando into a lower register.

These New Puritans include a reworking of Where Corals Lie on their 2010 album Hidden.