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The Sun o er the waters was throwing	A
In the freshness of morning its beams	B
And the breast of the ocean seemed glowing	A
With glittering silvery streams	B
A bark in the distance was bounding	A
Away for the land on her lee	C
And the boatswain s shrill whistle resounding	A
Came over and over the sea	C
The breezes blew fair and were guiding	A
Her swiftly along on her track	D
And the billows successively passing	A
Were lost in the distance aback	D
The sailors seemed busy preparing	A
For anchor to drop ere the night	E
The red rusted cables in fathoms	F
Were haul d from their prisons to light	E
Each rope and each brace was attended	G
By stout hearted sons of the main	H
Whose voices in unison blended	G
Sang many a merry toned strain	H
Forgotten their care and their sorrow	I
If of such they had ever known aught	G
Each soul was wrapped up in the morrow	I
The morrow which greeted them not	G
A sunshiny hope was inspiring	A
And filling their hearts with a glow	I
Like that on the billows around them	J
Like the silvery ocean below	I
As they looked on the haven before them	J
Already high looming and near	K
What else but a joy could invade them	J
Or what could they feel but a cheer	K
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The eve on the waters was clouded	G
And gloomy and dark grew the sky	L
The ocean in blackness was shrouded	G
And wails of a tempest flew by	L
The bark o er the billows high surging	A
Mid showers of the foam crested spray	M
Now sinking now slowly emerging	A
Held onward her dangerous way	M
The gale in the distance was veering	A
To a point that would drift her on land	G
And fearfully he that was steering	A
Look d round on the cliff girdled strand	G
He thought of the home now before him	N
And muttered sincerely a prayer	O
That morning might safely restore him	N
To friends and to kind faces there	O
He knew that if once at the mercy	C
Of the winds and those mountain like waves	P
The sun would rise over the waters	Q
The day would return on their graves	P
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Still blacker the heavens were scowling	A
Still nearer the rock skirted shore	R
Yet fiercer the tempest was howling	A
And louder the wild waters roar	R
The cold rain in torrents came pouring	A
On deck thro the rigging and shrouds	S
And the deep pitchy dark was illumined	G
Each moment with gleams from the clouds	S
Of forky shap d lightning as darting	A
It made a wide pathway on high	L
And the sound of the thunder incessant	G
Re echoed the breadth of the sky	L
The light hearted tars of the morning	A
Now gloomily watching the storm	T
Were silent the glare from the flashes	U
Revealing each weather beat form	T
Their airy built castles all vanished	G
When they heard the wild conflict ahead	G
Their hopes of the morning were banished	G
And terror seemed ruling instead	G
They gazed on the heavens above them	J
And then on the waters beneath	V
And shrunk as foreboding those billows	W
Might shroud them ere morrow in death	X
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Hark A voice o er the tempest came ringing	A
A wild cry of bitter despair	O
Re echoed by all in the vessel	Y
And filling the wind ridden air	O
The breakers and rocks were before them	J
Discovered too plain to their eyes	Z
And the heart bursting shrieks of the hopeless	A2
Ascending were lost in the skies	Z
Then a crash then a moan from the dying	A
Went on on the wings of the gale	B2
Soon hush d in the roar of the waters	Q
And the tempest s continuing wail	B2
The Storm Power loudly was sounding	A
Their funeral dirge as they passed	G
And the white crested waters around them	J
Re echoed the voice of the blast	G
The surges will show to the morrow	I
A fearful and heartrending sight	G
And bereaved ones will weep in their sorrow	I
When they think of that terrible night	G
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The day on the ocean returning	A
Saw still d to a slumber the deep	C2
Not a zephyr disturbing its bosom	D2
The winds and the breezes asleep	C2
Again the warm sunshine was gleaming	A
Refulgently fringing the sea	C
Its rays to the horizon beaming	A
And clothing the land on the lee	C
The billows were silently gliding	A
O er the graves of the sailors beneath	V
The waves round the vessel yet pointing	A
The scene of their anguish and death	X
They seemed to the fancy bewailing	A
The sudden and terrible doom	E2
Of those who were yesterday singing	A
And laughing in sight of their tomb	E2
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Tis thus on the sea of existence	F2
The morning begins without care	O
Hope cheerfully points to the distance	F2
The Future beams sunny and fair	O
And we as the bark o er the billows	W
Admiring the beauty of day	M
With Fortune all smiling around us	A2
Glide onward our silvery way	M
We know not nor fear for a sorrow	I
Ever crossing our pathway in life	G2
We judge from to day the to morrow	I
And dream not of meeting with strife	G2
This world seems to us as an Eden	H2
And we wonder when hearing around	G
The cries of stern pain and affliction	H2
How such an existence is found	G
But we find to our cost when misfortune	H2
Comes mantling our sun in its night	G
That the Earth was not made to be Heaven	H2
Not always our life can be bright	G
In turn we see each of our day dreams	B
Dissolve into air and decay	M
And learn that the hopes that are brightest	G
Fade soonest far soonest away	M

Henry Kendall

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