The King of the Southern Sea (Nathan James Sporle)

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• (Posted 2023-12-11)  CPDL #78069:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-11).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 569 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The King of the Southern Sea
Composer: Nathan James Sporle
Lyricist: Joseph Edwards Carpenter
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1901 J. Curwen & Sons
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Original text and translations

English text

O the whale is free of the boundless sea,
He lives for a thousand years;
He sinks to rest in the billow’s breast,
Nor the roughest tempest fears.
The howling blast as it hurries past
Is music to lull him to sleep,
And he scatters the spray in his boisterous play
As he dashes the king of the deep.
O the rare old whale, ’mid storm and gale,
In his ocean home will be
A giant in might, where might is right,
And the King of the boundless sea!

O a wondrous tale would the rare old whale
Of the mighty deep disclose,
Of the skeleton forms, of bygone storms,
And of treasures that no one knows.
He has seen the crew, when the tempest blew,
Drop down from the slippery deck,
While he’s shaking the tide from his glassy side
And sporting with ocean and wreck.
Then the rare old whale, ’mid storm and gale,
In his ocean home will be
A giant in might, where might is right,
And the King of the boundless sea!