The sea gull’s song (Cyrus Cornelius Pratt)

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• (Posted 2023-11-30)  CPDL #77718:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-30).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 589 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The sea gull’s song
Composer: Cyrus Cornelius Pratt
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1885 E. T. Pound
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Let the birds of a bright and a glorious wing,
’Mid the shady groves and wild flowers sing.
But mine be the rock where the breakers roar,
And the wild waves roll to the trembling shore;
For there, oh, there is the place for me
To pour my song by the raging sea.

Hurrah! for the sea, boys, Hurrah! for the sea, boys,
Hurrah! for the sea, boys, the raging sea;
Hurrah! for the sea, boys, Hurrah! for the sea, boys,
Herrah! for the sea, boys, the raging sea.

When the sun has set ’neath a cloud of snow,
And the billows dance by the gallant prow,
When his shining curls, as the sea-boy sleeps,
From his sunburnt brow the bright breezes sweep,
O’ there, oh, there is the place for me
To sing my song by the raging sea.

O’er the drowning wretch on the foundering bark,
When the black waves mount to a sky as dark,
I’d soar with a light and a fearless wing,
And I’d echo their vain shrieks back again;
For there, oh, there is the place for me
To wail with the mariner out at sea,

Let birds of a bright and a glossy plume
Build their tiny homes where the wild flowers bloom;
On a slippery crag I’d build my nest
Where the white spray flies to my snowy white breast,
And the wild waves rock my cradled young
While I sing to the sea an answering song.