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To the Ocean

from Poems & Lyrics by John Collie (1856) by John Collie (1834-1893)

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OLD ocean , your sound has a charm for my ear , It reminds me of days that are gone , When o'er your rugg'd boundaries , a stranger to fear , I have travelled , and travelled alone . I have laughed when your billows , like mountains , were leaping , And heaving their foam o'er the wild troubled shore , While o'er your white bosom the petrels were sweeping , Forgetting your wrath , and unheeding your roar .

As the roe of the mountain delights to be free , And bounds o'er the plains with the speed of the wind , Disdaining the mark of the sportsman to be , But depends on his swiftness , and leaves him behind , So I , like the roe , had no cares to enthral me When last I your watery bosom surveyed ; No gloomy forebodings e'er dared to recall me From the grandeur your foam - crested billows dis played .

But how like the flower that is nursd by the sunshine , That shoots forth its blossoms and blooms for a while , Till around it the hoar - frosts of Autumn encircle , And leave but the stem to adorn the vale . So the Autumn of age is o'er me impending , The leaf now is yellow and begun to decay ; The fruit now is ripe , and the twig now is bending , And the first breeze of winter may waft all away ..

Yet though Time's silent hand all my senses have shaken , Though in care’s gloomy garments my soul is arrayed , When I gaze o'er the blue sea my fancies awaken I To bright recollections , long , long since decayed . Then roll on in splendour , thou white foamy ocean , In majesty , greatness , and grandeur roll on ; Though dim be my eye , my heart swells with emotion , When I think on the gay happy days that are gone .

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from Poems & Lyrics by John Collie (1856), released May 24, 2022
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from Poems & Lyrics (in the English dialect) (1856), track released April 15, 2023
John Collie (1834-1893) - lyrics

Dave Edwards - acoustic guitar, bass, harmonica, vocal
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