Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood
Spirit after Spirit! The smithies break the flood
The golden smithies of the Emperor!
Marbles of the dancing floor
Break bitter furies of complexity
Those images that yet
Fresh images beget
That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea
Astraddle on the dolphin’s mire and blood was written by Michael Tippett & William Butler Yeats.
Michael Tippett released Astraddle on the dolphin’s mire and blood on Thu Apr 11 1991.