The Corsair’s home (John Thomas)
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- (Posted 2023-12-13) CPDL #78172:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-13). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 661 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The Corsair’s home
Composer: John Thomas
Lyricist: Charles Edward Long
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1871 Lamborn Cock & Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Gaily, gaily sails our barque!
Swiftly through swelling waves we glide!
And dancing sea-drops lightly mar
Our course along the boundless tide!
We love thee, Ocean, for we find
We safely o’er thy waters roam;
Since there no trace is left behind:
Thou art the Corsair’s only home.
Lazy sons of peace,
Prattle of strength and freedom still!
You talk full loudly, yet ne’er cease
To toil, to toil at some proud tyrant’s will;
You never knew the joy we feel
When Freedom lends our sails, our sails her breath,
Or bounding on through fire and steel
We rush to victory or death.