Jamie’s on the Stormy Sea (Bernard Covert)

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• (Posted 2023-10-06)  CPDL #76094:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-06).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 557 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Jamie’s on the Stormy Sea
Composer: Bernard Covert
Lyricist: David Macbeth Moir
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1891 Biglow & Main Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Ere the twilight bat was flitting,
In the sunset at her knitting
Sang a lonely maiden, sitting
Underneath her threshold tree;
And ere daylight died before us,
And the vesper stars shone o’er us,
Fitful rose her tender chorus,
“Jamie’s on the stormy sea.”

Warmly shone the sunset glowing,
Sweetly breathed the young flowers blowing;
Earth, with beauty overflowing,
Seemed the home of love to be;
As those angel tones ascending,
With the scene and season blending,
Ever had the same low ending,—
“Jamie’s on the stormy sea.”

Curfew bells remotely ringing,
Mingled with that sweet voice singing,
And the last red ray seemed clinging
Lingeringly to tower and tree:
Nearer as I came and nearer,
Finer rose the notes and clearer;
Oh! ’twas heaven itself to hear her,—
“Jamie’s on the stormy sea.”

Blow ye west winds! blandly hover
O’er the bark that bears my lover;
Gently blow, and bear him over
To his own dear home and me;
For when light-winds bend the willow,
Sleep forsakes my lonely pillow,
Thinking of the foaming billow—
“Jamie’s on the stormy sea.”

How could I but list, but linger,
To the song, and near the singer,
Sweetly wooing heaven to bring her
Jamie from the stormy sea;
And while yet her lips did name me,
Forth I sprang, my heart o’ercame me—
“Grieve no more, sweet, I am Jamie,
Home returned to love and thee!”