The Rising of the Storm (Louis A. Coerne)

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• (Posted 2023-10-04)  CPDL #76048:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-04).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 539 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Rising of the Storm
Composer: Louis A. Coerne
Lyricist: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1920 Oliver Ditson Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

    Far out in the night,
    On the wavering sight
I see a dark hull loom;
    And its light on high,
    Like a Cyclops’ eye,
Shines out through the mist and gloom.

    Now the winds well up
    From the earth’s deep cup,
And fall on the sea and shore,
    And against the pier
    The waters rear
And break with a sullen roar.

    Up comes the gale,
    And the mist-wrought veil
Gives way to the lightning’s glare,
    And the cloud-drifts fall,
    A sombre pall,
O’er water, earth, and air.

    The storm king flies,
    His whip he plies
And bellows down the wind.
    The lightning rash
    With blinding flash
Comes swiftly on behind.

    Rise, waters, rise,
    And taunt the skies
With your swift-flitting form.
    Sweep, wild winds, sweep,
    And tear the deep
To atoms in the storm.

    And the waters leapt,
    And the wild winds swept,
And blew out the moon in the sky,
    And I laughed with glee,
    It was joy to me
As the storm went raging by!