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percy grainger - the sea-wife lyrics

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there dwells a wife by the northern gate
and a wealthy wife is she;
she breeds a breed o’ rovin’ men
and casts them over sea

and some are drowned in deep water
and some in sight o’ shore
and word goes back to the weary wife
and ever she sends more

for since that wife had gate or gear
or hearth or garth or bield
she willed her sons to the white harvest
and that is a bitter yield

she wills her sons to the wet ploughing
to ride the horse of tree
and syne her sons come back again
far+spent from out the sea

the good wife’s sons come home again
with little into their hands
but the lore of men that ha’ dealt with men
in the new and naked lands;

but the faith of men that ha’ brothered men
by more than easy breath
and the eyes o’ men that ha’ read wi’ men
in the open books of death
rich are they, rich in wonders seen
but poor in the goods o’ men;
so what they ha’ got by the skin o’ their t++th
they sell for their t++th again

for whether they lose to the naked life
or win to their hearts’ desire
they tell it all to the weary wife
that nods beside the fire

her hearth is wide to every wind
that makes the white ash spin;
and tide and tide and ‘tween the tides
her sons go out and in;

(out with great mirth that do desire
hazard of trackless ways
in with content to wait their watch
and warm before the blaze);

and some return by failing light
and some in waking dream
for she hears the heels of the dripping ghosts
that ride the rough roof+beam

home, they come home from all the ports
the living and the dead;
the good wife’s sons come home again
for her blessing on their head!

- percy grainger lyrics

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