The beautiful sea (Daniel W. Crist)

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• (Posted 2023-10-08)  CPDL #76144:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-08).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 536 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Beautiful Sea
Composer: Daniel W. Crist
Lyricist: Eden Reeder Latta
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1887 D. W. Christ
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Original text and translations

English text

The beautiful sea with its treasures of gold,
And billows so grand, that for ages have rolled,
What wonderful tales that may never be told,
If Language were theirs, could their caverns unfold;
What powerful fleets o’er its surface have sailed,
What soldiers have fought, and have conquered or failed;
How proudly their flags, they in victory hailed!
Albeit in death had their proud features paled.

The beautiful sea, the beautiful sea,
Far down in its depths, oh, the plains and the caves,
Secure from the winds and the wrath of the waves!
The beautiful sea, the beautiful sea.

The beautiful sea with its ebb and its flow,
Its gulfstream that doth to the Orient go,
Its merchantmen proud, sailing to, sailing fro,
And emigrant throngs, with a bright hope aglow,
But many have paid with their lives the dread cost.
The ocean they tried, but they left it uncrost,
Alas, that the fair and the loved should be tossed,
On treacherous waves and so oft should be lost.

The beautiful sea with its pearl covered floor,
Its seasons of calm, and its rush and its roar,
Its tempests that beat on the wave-eaten shore,
Its wrecks that went down, and that rise nevermore.
The Coralline groves and the bright tinted shells.
The secret abode, where the mermaiden dwells,
The music so weird, as it sinks and it swells,
Entrancing the heart with its mystical spells!