The lighthouse (George Balch Nevin)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-02-14). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 250 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: The lighthouse
Composer: George Balch Nevin
Lyricist: David Kilburn Stevens
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1910 American Book Company
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Original text and translations
English text
All steadfast on the sunken rock,
The grin old lighthouse braves
The blows of time and tempest shock,
The clutch of angry waves.
The fury of the mighty deep,
The wrath of raging gale
Against that stern embattled keep
Are hurled without avail.
Aloft the beacon brightly beams
Against the murky night,
And sends its friendly glowing beams
To guide the ship aright.
“Keep clear,” its warning signal reads,
“For death lurks at my feet!”
The watchful sailor sees and heeds
And trims his straining sheet.