THE FLY by Swiss/Italian music composer Ivo Antognini (b. 1963)
http://ivoantognini.com
On a poem by William Blake (1757 -1827)
All voices sung by Matthew Curtis


THE FLY

Little fly,
Thy summer’s play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.

Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?

For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.

If thought is life
And strength and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death,

Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.