lirik lagu gideon wagner - william cullen bryant - the hymn of the sea
the sea is mighty, but a mightier sways
his restless billows. thou, whose hands have scooped
his boundless gulfs and built his shore, thy breath
that moved in the beginning o’er his face
moves o’er it evermore. the obedient waves
to its strong motion roll, and rise and fall
still from that realm of rain thy cloud goes up
as at the first, to water the great earth
and keep her valleys green. a hundred realms
watch its broad shadow warping on the wind
and in the dropping shower, with gladness hear
thy promise of the harvest. i look forth
over the boundless blue, where joyously
the bright crests of innumerable waves
glance to the sun at once, as when the hands
of a great multitude are upward flung
in acclamation. i behold the ships
gliding from cape to cape, from isle to isle
or stemming toward far lands, or hastening home
from the old world. it is thy friendly breeze
that bears them, with the riches of the land
and treasure of dear lives, till, in the port
the shouting seaman climbs and furls the sail
but who shall bide thy tempest, who shall face
the blast that wakes the fury of the sea?
oh god! thy justice makes the world turn pale
when on the armed fleet, that royally
bears down the surges, carrying war, to smite
some city, or invade some thoughtless realm
descends the fierce tornado. the vast hulks
are whirled like chaff upon the waves; the sails
fly, rent like webs of gossamer; the masts
are snapped asunder; downward from the decks
downward are slung, into the fathomless gulf
their cruel engines; and their hosts, arrayed
in trappings of the battle~field, are whelmed
by whirlpools, or dashed dead upon the rocks
then stand the nations still with awe, and pause
a moment, from the bl~~dy work of war
these restless surges eat away the shores
of earth’s old continents; the fertile plain
welters in shallows, headlands crumble down
and the tide drifts the sea~sand in the streets
of the drowned city. thou, meanwhile, afar
in the green chambers of the middle sea
where broadest spread the waters and the line
sinks deepest, while no eye beholds thy work
creator! thou dost teach the coral worm
to lay his mighty reefs. from age to age
he builds beneath the waters, till, at last
his bulwarks overtop the brine, and check
the long wave rolling from the southern pole
to break upon j~pan. thou bid’st the fires
that smoulder under ocean, heave on high
the new~made mountains, and uplift their peaks
a place of refuge for the storm~driven bird
the birds and wafting billows plant the rifts
with herb and tree; sweet fountains gush; sweet airs
ripple the living lakes that, fringed with flowers
are gathered in the hollows. thou dost look
on thy creation and pr~nounce it good
its valleys, glorious with their summer green
praise thee in silent beauty, and its woods
swept by the murmuring winds of ocean, join
the murmuring shores in a perpetual hymn
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