The restless sea (John Liptrot Hatton)

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• (Posted 2023-10-26)  CPDL #76696:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-26).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 347 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The restless sea
Composer: John Liptrot Hatton
Lyricist: Frederick Griffin^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1871 Weekes & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Whence come the thund’ring billows?
And where do the wavelets spring?
Rocked in their stormy cradle,
Rough winds their lullaby sing;
And caves of coral echo
The sound of their sportive mirth,
As yielding a share of treasures rare
To deck the fair dames of earth;
Or a necklace bright, of red or white,
To grace young beauty’s birth.

The restless sea will ever
On the shore with music beat,
As it brings to the land fresh off’rings
To cast them at her feet;
Like a lover, rough but constant,
Of this fair and favoured isle,
Who oft recedes, yet never leaves,
Guarding her all the while,
Though calmly his crest may sink to rest
In the light of her sunny smile.