Sail on, my Bark (Chauncey Milton Wyman)

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• (Posted 2023-12-19)  CPDL #78357:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-19).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 255 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Sail on, my Bark
Composer: Chauncey Milton Wyman
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1868 Root & Cady
Description: bark [sic]

Original text and translations

English text

Sail on, sail on, thou fearless bark— [sic]
Wherever blows the welcome wind,
It cannot lead to scenes more dark,
More sad than those we leave behind.
Each wave that passes seems to say,
“Though death beneath our smile may be,
Less cold we are, less false than they,
Whose smiling wreck’d thy hopes and thee.”

Sail on, sail on— through endless space—
Through calm— through tempest— stop no more;
The stormiest sea’s a resting-place
To him who leaves such hearts on shore.
Or— if some desert land we meet,
Where never yet false-hearted men
Profaned a world, that else were sweet—
Then rest thee, bark, but not till then.