A setting of Caliban's words to the intruders in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" for alto voice and guitar
Performed by the composer (note the cute glissandi!)
Be not afear'd
the isle is full of noises
sounds and sweet airs that give delight
and hurt not
sometimes a thousand thousand instruments
will hum about mine ears
and sometimes voices that,
if I then had waked after long sleep,
will make me sleep again
and then in dreaming the clouds methought would open
and show riches ready to drop upon me
that when I wak'd I cried to dream again
William Shakespeare - The Tempest (Act III Scene 2)