When the winds breathe soft (Luther Orlando Emerson)

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• (Posted 2024-03-06)  CPDL #79386:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-06).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 381 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: When the winds breathe soft
Composer: Luther Orlando Emerson
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1899 Chicago Music Co.
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English text

When Winds breathe soft, along the quiet Deep,
The Waters curl, the peaceful Billows sleep:
A stronger Gale the troubled Waves awake;
The surface roughens, and the ocean shakes.
More dreadful still, when furious Storms arise,
The mounting Billows bellow to the Skies;
On liquid Rocks the tott’ring Vessel’s toss’d,
Unnumber’d Surges lash the foaming Coast:
The raging Waves, excited by the Blast,
Whiten with wrath, and split the sturdy Mast.
When, in an instant, He who rules the Floods,
Earth, Air, and Fire, Jehovah, God of gods!
In pleasing accents speaks his sovereign Will,
And bids the Waters and the Winds be still.