To sea! the calm is o'er (Florence Ashton Marshall)

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•  Posted on 2023-11-15(Posted 2023-11-15)  CPDL #77342:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-15).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 962 kB   Copyright: Personal

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• (Posted 2020-05-07)  CPDL #58485:        

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2020-05-07).   Score information: A4, 10 pages, 156 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: To sea! the calm is o'er
Composer: Florence Ashton Marshall
Lyricist: Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB, with some T divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella or Keyboard

First published: 1883 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 16, no. 444
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Original text and translations

English text

To sea, to sea! The calm is o'er;
The wanton water leaps in sport,
And rattles down the pebbly shore;
The dolphin wheels, the sea-cow snorts,
And unseen mermaids' pearly song
Comes bubbling up, the weeds among.
Fling broad the sail, dip deep the oar:
To sea, to sea! The calm is o'er.

To sea, to sea! our wide-winged bark
Shall billowy cleave its sunny way,
And with its shadow, fleet and dark,
Break the caved Tritons' azure day,
Like mighty eagle soaring light
O'er antelopes on Alpine height.
The anchor heaves, the ship swings free,
The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!