A Sea Symphony: I. A Song for All Seas, All Ships (Moderato Maestoso)
Behold, the sea itself,
and on its limitless heaving breast, the ships.
See where their white sails, bellying in the wind
speckle the green and blue.
See the steamers
coming and going,
steaming in or out of port.
See,
dusky and undulating.
See the long pennants of smoke.
Behold, the sea itself,
and on its limitless heaving breast,
the ships.
Today a rude, brief recitative
of ships sailing the seas,
each with its special flag or ship-signal,
of unnamed heroes in the ships,
of waves spreading far as the eye can reach,
of dashing spray and the winds piping and blowing,
Today a rude, brief recitative
of ships sailing the seas,
each with its special flag or ship-signal,
of unnamed heroes in the ships,
of waves spreading far as the eye can reach,
of dashing spray and the winds piping and blowing,
And out of these a chant for all sailors
of all nations.
Fitful, like a surge.
Of sea captains young or old,
and the mates,
and of all intrepid sailors
Of the few, very choice, taciturn
Whom fate can never surprise nor death display
Picked sparingly,
without noise,
by thee old ocean, chosen by thee,
Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time
and unitest the nations
Suckled by thee, old husky nurse,
embodying thee, indomitable,
untamed as thee
Flaunt out O sea, your separate flags of nations!
Flaunt out visible as ever, the various flags and ship-signals!
But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man
one flag above all the rest,
A spiritual woven signal for all nations,
emblem of man elate about death,
token of all brave captains and all intrepid sailors and mates, and all that went down doing their duty, remeniscent of them, twined from all intrepid captians
young or old
a pennant universal, subtly waiving all time o'er all brave sailors,
all seas, all ships.
and on its limitless heaving breast, the ships.
See where their white sails, bellying in the wind
speckle the green and blue.
See the steamers
coming and going,
steaming in or out of port.
See,
dusky and undulating.
See the long pennants of smoke.
Behold, the sea itself,
and on its limitless heaving breast,
the ships.
Today a rude, brief recitative
of ships sailing the seas,
each with its special flag or ship-signal,
of unnamed heroes in the ships,
of waves spreading far as the eye can reach,
of dashing spray and the winds piping and blowing,
Today a rude, brief recitative
of ships sailing the seas,
each with its special flag or ship-signal,
of unnamed heroes in the ships,
of waves spreading far as the eye can reach,
of dashing spray and the winds piping and blowing,
And out of these a chant for all sailors
of all nations.
Fitful, like a surge.
Of sea captains young or old,
and the mates,
and of all intrepid sailors
Of the few, very choice, taciturn
Whom fate can never surprise nor death display
Picked sparingly,
without noise,
by thee old ocean, chosen by thee,
Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time
and unitest the nations
Suckled by thee, old husky nurse,
embodying thee, indomitable,
untamed as thee
Flaunt out O sea, your separate flags of nations!
Flaunt out visible as ever, the various flags and ship-signals!
But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man
one flag above all the rest,
A spiritual woven signal for all nations,
emblem of man elate about death,
token of all brave captains and all intrepid sailors and mates, and all that went down doing their duty, remeniscent of them, twined from all intrepid captians
young or old
a pennant universal, subtly waiving all time o'er all brave sailors,
all seas, all ships.
Credits
Writer(s): Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link
Other Album Tracks
- A Sea Symphony: I. A Song for All Seas, All Ships (Moderato Maestoso)
- A Sea Symphony: II. On the Beach at Night Alone (Largo sostenuto)
- A Sea Symphony: III. Scherzo - The Waves (Allegro brillante)
- A Sea Symphony: IV. The Explorers (Grave e molto adagio - Andante con moto)
- Symphony No. 2, "A London Symphony": I. Lento - Allegro resoluto
- Symphony No. 2, "A London Symphony": II. Lento
- Symphony No. 2, "A London Symphony": III. Scherzo (Nocturne). Allegro vivace
- Symphony No. 2, "A London Symphony": IV. Finale - Epilogue
- Symphony No. 8 in D Minor: I. Fantasia (Variazioni senza tema)
- Symphony No. 8 in D Minor: II. Scherzo all marcia (per stromenti a fiato)
All Album Tracks: Vaughan Williams: The Complete Symphonies >
Altri album
- Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 7 "Sinfonia Antartica" & Symphony No. 9
- Symphony No. 9 in E Minor: III. Scherzo: Allegro pesante
- Job: Scene I. Introduction
- Vaughan Williams; Symphonies Nos. 6 & 4
- Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
- Vaughan Williams: The Complete Symphonies
All Albums of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hallé & Sir Mark Elder >
© 2024 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy
Rockol
- Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
- Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
- Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
- Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
- Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.
Feedback
Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.