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The Sailors Return
By Sydney Dobell (18241874)
T
This morn, this merry morn;
When the cock crew shrill from over the hill,
I heard a bugle horn.
There sighed the sigh of the sea,
And through the dream I was dreaming,
This voice came singing to me:—
Low under the lee,
Sing ho!
The billow,
And the lash of the rolling sea!
Boat, boat, to the lee!
Love, on thy pillow,
Art thou dreaming of me?
Land us low on the lee!
For sleeping or waking,
Sweet love, I am coming to thee!
Low, low, on the lee,
Sing ho!
The billow
That brings me back to thee!”