 | Songs and ballads by Samuel Lover |  |
OH! GALLANT SAILOR BOY.
Oh! gallant sailor boy,
When the look-out on the topmast thou'rt keeping,
Proud in thy daring joy,
Giving no thought to the eyes that are weeping,
Weeping, and lifted be
In fervent prayer for thee,
When the tempest's roar
Is heard on shore,
And thy mother, on bended knee,
Sinks, with a sinking heart,
Till the heart groweth strong in its silent devotion,
Praying, where'er thou art,
That Heaven will keep thee unharm'd on the ocean;
Sparing the widow's joy,—
Her only sailor boy!
When the look-out on the topmast thou'rt keeping,
Proud in thy daring joy,
Giving no thought to the eyes that are weeping,
Weeping, and lifted be
In fervent prayer for thee,
When the tempest's roar
Is heard on shore,
And thy mother, on bended knee,
Sinks, with a sinking heart,
Till the heart groweth strong in its silent devotion,
Praying, where'er thou art,
That Heaven will keep thee unharm'd on the ocean;
Sparing the widow's joy,—
Her only sailor boy!
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Oh! gallant sailor boy,
Safe while the billows around thee are dashing,
And the petrel, with noisy joy,
Shrieks thro' the tempest on wing wildly flashing:
For other wings may be
(Tho' all unseen by thee)
Call'd by the pray'r
Of a fond heart there,
For thy mother, on bended knee,
Sinks, with a sinking heart,
Till the heart groweth strong in its silent devotion,
Praying, where'er thou art,
That Heaven will keep thee unharm'd on the ocean;
Sparing the widow's joy,—
Her only sailor boy!
Safe while the billows around thee are dashing,
And the petrel, with noisy joy,
Shrieks thro' the tempest on wing wildly flashing:
For other wings may be
(Tho' all unseen by thee)
Call'd by the pray'r
Of a fond heart there,
For thy mother, on bended knee,
Sinks, with a sinking heart,
Till the heart groweth strong in its silent devotion,
Praying, where'er thou art,
That Heaven will keep thee unharm'd on the ocean;
Sparing the widow's joy,—
Her only sailor boy!
| Songs and ballads by Samuel Lover | |