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I mind it was but yesterday	A
The sun was dim the air was chill	B
Below the town below the hill	B
The sails of my son's ship did fill	B
My Jacob who was cast away	A
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He said God keep you mother dear	C
But did not turn to kiss his wife	D
They had some foolish idle strife	D
Her tongue was like a two edged knife	D
And he was proud as any peer	C
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Howbeit that night I took no note	E
Of sea nor sky for all was drear	C
I marked not that the hills looked near	C
Nor that the moon though curved and clear	C
Through curd like scud did drive and float	E
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For with my darling went the joy	F
Of autumn woods and meadows brown	G
I came to hate the little town	G
It seemed as if the sun went down	G
With him my only darling boy	F
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It was the middle of the night	H
The wind it shifted west by south	I
It piled high up the harbor mouth	I
The marshes black with summer drouth	I
Were all abroad with sea foam white	H
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It was the middle of the night	H
The sea upon the garden leapt	J
And my son's wife in quiet slept	J
And I his mother waked and wept	J
When lo there came a sudden light	H
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And there he stood His seaman's dress	K
All wet and dripping seemed to be	L
The pale blue fires of the sea	L
Dripped from his garments constantly	L
I could not speak through cowardness	L
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I come through night and storm he said	M
Through storm and night and death said he	L
To kiss my wife if it so be	L
That strife still holds 'twixt her and me	L
For all beyond is peace he said	M
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The sea is His and He who sent	N
The wind and wave can soothe their strife	D
And brief and foolish is our life	D
He stooped and kissed his sleeping wife	D
Then sighed and like a dream he went	N
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Now when my darling kissed not me	L
But her his wife who did not wake	O
My heart within me seemed to break	O
I swore a vow nor thenceforth spake	O
Of what my clearer eyes did see	L
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And when the slow weeks brought him not	P
Somehow we spake of aught beside	Q
For she her hope upheld her pride	Q
And I in me all hope had died	Q
And my son passed as if forgot	P
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It was about the next springtide	P
She pined and faded where she stood	P
Yet spake no word of ill or good	P
She had the hard cold Edwards' blood	P
In all her veins and so she died	P
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One time I thought before she passed	P
To give her peace but ere I spake	O
Methought He will be first to break	O
The news in heaven and for his sake	O
I held mine back until the last	P
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And here I sit nor care to roam	R
I only wait to hear his call	S
I doubt not that this day next fall	S
Shall see me safe in port where all	S
And every ship at last comes home	R
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And you have sailed the Spanish Main	T
And knew my Jacob Eh Mercy	L
Ah God of wisdom hath the sea	L
Yielded its dead to humble me	L
My boy My Jacob Turn again	U

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