The Song of the Bell Buoy (Philip G. Clapp)

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• (Posted 2023-10-03)  CPDL #75987:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-03).   Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 741 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Song of the Bell Buoy
Composer: Philip G. Clapp
Lyricist: Herbert Bashford
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1923 Silver, Burdett and Company
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Original text and translations

English text

Oh, I rise and I fall, I call and I call,
Though the years may grow long and the days may go by;
Near a reef of gray stone, forsaken, alone,
I am left to the sea, to the sun and the sky.

How I shout and I reel with the frenzy I feel
When my wave-woven garments are fashioned of fire—
When the night wind blows keen and no star may be seen
And the heart of the sea is as wild as Desire!

As I sway and I swing how my brazen lips fling
Their one word of warning to those sailing home,
But there comes no reply save a spar drifting by,
A sob from the surf and a face in the foam!

Whether foul or fair sky, but one message I cry
From the half-hidden ledges I haunt as a ghost;
To the end will I bide on the pulse of the tide
Unwearied, undaunted—the voice of the Coast!