Soft glides the sea (John Augustus Sterry)

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• (Posted 2023-12-12)  CPDL #78094:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-12).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 732 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Soft glides the sea
Composer: John Augustus Sterry
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1854 J. E. Gould
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English text

Soft glides the sea,
Bounding and free,
Dance the blue waves as they reach to the shore;
O’er vale and light
Gleams the moon bright,
Gaily the mariner plies the swift oar.
Singing awhile ere the sun lights the main,
Land of my birth! I shall greet thee again.

Night wears around,
Sullen and grey,
Frowns the dark sea on the wild restless deep;
Lightning’s red flash,
Thunder's loud crash,
Swiftly the gallant bark onward doth sweep.
Many a mile on the storm ridden main,
Land of my birth! I shall greet thee again.

Tempests are fled,
Morning hath shed,
Light from her eye and balm from her breath;
All things rejoice,
Heard is the voice
Of the mariner now singing praises of home.
The ships gallant row presses on to the main,
Land of my birth! I shall greet thee again.