This is the best of me; for the rest, I ate, and drank, and slept, loved and hated, like another; my life was as the vapour and is not; but this I saw and knew: this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory
Edward Elgar am Ende der Partitur seines Oratoriums
Edward Elgar selbst betrachtete sein großes Oratorium nach Worten von John Henry Cardina...