Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Cloud Capp’d Towers (1951)

No. 2 of the 3 Shakespeare Songs (1951, IRV 72) Performers : Netherlands Chamber Choir, with John Alldis The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1 (Prospero) : The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.