The Mariner’s Song (Webster Irving Hartshorn)
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- (Posted 2023-10-25) CPDL #76611:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-25). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 357 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The Mariner’s Song
Composer: Webster Irving Hartshorn
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1865 Root & Cady
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Original text and translations
English text
O the dark blue sea is the place for me,
When the billows high are bounding,
When the wild wind raves o’er the foam-tipped waves
And tempest’s voice is sounding;
When the sky is black, and the strong masts crack
As the good ship onward dashes;
And the thunder’s peal makes the faint heart reel,
And the forked lightning flashes.
’Tis a glorious sight, on a dark midnight,
There to view such wild commotion,
’Tis sublime to hear with a startled ear,
The roaring wild of ocean.
From my berth I creep, and on deck I leap,
And so tight the bulwarks clinging;
And my heart doth bound, as I look around
At the storm its wild way winging.
How the thunders’ boom now awakes the gloom.
And the storm is fast descending;
And the fierce waves roar on a leeward shore,
As the ship to land is bending.
But still naught care we for a raging sea,
And still naught the thunders’ crashing;
Let the breakers rave, for their wrath we’ll brave
As on by the rocks we’re dashing.