professorfangirl: Ben Whishaw, “Where the Bee Sucks There Suck...

professorfangirl:

Ben Whishaw, “Where the Bee Sucks There Suck I,” from the soundtrack to Julie Taymor’s Tempest. They took the lines they cut from the dialogue and set them to music, and you will have serious goosebumps.

Where the bee sucks, there suck I: /

In a cowslip’s bell I lie; /

There I couch when owls do cry. /

On the bat’s back I do fly /

After summer, after summer merrily. /

Merrily, merrily shall I live now /

Under the blossom that hangs on the bough…