The book of English Songs From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
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The wind is wakening loud, my boys, The lightning flashes free, The hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea. 192 SEA SONGS. THE SEA. BARRY ComAvALL. THE Sea, the sea, the open sea, The blue, the fresh, the ever free : Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round : It plays with the clouds, it mocks the skies, Or like a cradled creature lies. I'm on the sea, I'm on the sea, I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheres...oe'er I go. If a storm should come and awake the deep, What matter? I shall ride and sleep. I love, how I love to ride On the fierce, foaming, bursting tide, Where every mad wave drowns the moon, And whistles aloft its tempest tune: And tells how goeth the world below, And why the south-west wind doth blow. I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the deep sea more and more, And backward new to her billowy breast, Like a bird that seeketh her mother's nest And a mother she was and is to me, For I was born on the open sea.
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