Wind and Sea (Frank G. Cauffman)

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• (Posted 2023-10-02)  CPDL #75957:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-02).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 682 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Wind and Sea
Composer: Frank G. Cauffman
Lyricist: Bayard Taylor
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1901 C. C. Birchard & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

I
The sea is a jovial comrade,
He laughs wherever he goes;
His merriment shines in the dimpling lines
That wrinkle his hale repose;
He lays himself down at the feet of the Sun,
And shakes all over with glee,
And the broad-backed billows fall faint on the shore,
In the mirth of the mighty Sea!

II
But the Wind is sad and mournful,
And cursed with an inward pain;
You may hark as you will, by valley or hill,
But you hear him still complain.
He wails on the barren mountains,
And shrieks on the wintry sea;
He sobs in the cedar, and moans in the pine,
And shudders all over the aspen tree.

III
O welcome are both their voices,
And I know not which is best,—
The laughter that slips from the Ocean’s lips,
Or the comfortless Wind’s unrest.
There’s a pang in all rejoicing,
A joy in the heart of pain,
And the Wind that saddens, and the Sea that gladdens,
Are singing the selfsame strain.