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samuel coleridge-taylor - sea drift, op. 69 lyrics

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see where she stands, on the wet sea+sands
looking across the water:
wild is the night, but wilder still
the face of the fisher’s daughter

what does she there, in the lightning’s glare
what does she there, i wonder?
what dread demon drags her forth
in the night and wind and thunder?

is it the ghost that haunts this coast? ++
the cruel waves mount higher
and the beacon pierces the stormy dark
with its javelin of fire

beyond the light of the beacon bright
a merchantman is tacking;
the ho+rs+ wind whistling through the shrouds
and the brittle topmasts cracking

the sea it moans over dead men’s bones
the sea it foams in anger;
the curlews swoop through the resonant air
with a warning cry of danger

the star+fish clings to the sea+weed’s rings
in a vague, dumb sense of peril;
and the spray, with its phantom+fingers, grasps
at the mullein dry and sterile
o, who is she that stands by the sea
in the lightning’s glare, undaunted? ++
seems this now like the coast of h+ll
by one white spirit haunted!

the night drags by; and the breakers die
along the ragged ledges;
the robin stirs in his drenchéd nest
the hawth+rn blooms on the hedges

in shimmering lines, through the dripping pines
the stealthy morn advances;
and the heavy sea+fog straggles back
before those bristling lances

still she stands on the wet sea+sands;
the morning breaks above her
and the corpse of a sailor gleams on the rocks ++
what if it were her lover?

- samuel coleridge taylor lyrics

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