The Lifeboat (William Webster Pearson)

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(Posted 2023-11-27) CPDL #77633:

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-27). Score information: Letter, 20 pages, 975 kB Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Lifeboat
Composer: William Webster Pearson
Lyricist: A. Earnshaw^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1890 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

A gun resounds across the deep,
A ship’s in peril there;
Brave men are hurrying down the steep,
The stormy seas to dare.
Away, away, thou swift bounding bark,
They wait and watch for thee;
Go, mount the wave, lifesaving ark—
Thy mission is on the sea.

Away, away, the wild ocean’s thy home,
They wait and watch for thee,
They wait and watch for thee;
Go, mount the wave, dash through the foam,
Thy mission is on the sea.

Cleaving the surge when the tempest howls,
And the lightnings flash with a vivid glare;
And the thunder startles the sinking souls,
Who shriek in their wild despair,
No hope, no help, no succour near;
Go, go, thy mission’s there.
Go, go, thou beautiful bouyant thing,
Away to the rescue speed,
Skim like a bird on elastic wing,
Safely to those in need:

Away, away, the wild ocean’s thy home,
They wait and watch for thee,
They wait and watch for thee;
Go, mount the wave, dash through the foam,
Thy mission is on the sea.

Mann’d by a crew of as gallant men,
As e’er swept oars in a stormy sea;
We pray Godspeed and spare ye,
Amen, Amen;
We trust in Him, and we trust in thee,
Amen, Amen.

Then away, away to thy ocean home,
They wait and watch for thee;
Go, mount the wave, dash through the foam,
Thy mission is on the sea;
Mount the wave, dash through the foam,
Thy mission is on the sea.
Away, away, away, away,
Thy mission is on the sea.
Away, away, away.