Songtexte Songs of the Sea Op. 91 (1983 Digital Remaster): IV. Homeward Bound (Andante tranquillo) - Charles Villiers Stanford, Henry Newbolt, Benjamin Luxon/Bournemouth Symphony Chorus/Geoffrey Hughes/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Norman Del Mar & Norman Del Mar

After long labouring in the windy waves
On smooth and shining tide
Swiftly the great ship glides
Her storms forgot, her weary watch is done
Forth she glides, and through the enchanted glades
Faint on the verge doth a halp dawns at last
The phantom skyline o'er shadowy down
Whose pale light creeps below
Through sunny mist aglow
Like noonday ghosts of summer moonshine clear
The hazled sorrow bright hazled midnight clear
There lies the hope of heaven above
Dearly beloved