Life on the Ocean Wave

A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep.

Like an eagle caged I pine, On this dull unchanging shore, Oh give me the flashing brine, The spray and the tempest's roar,

A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep.

Once more on the deck I stand Of my own swift gliding craft, Set sail, farewell to the land, The gale follows fair abaft.

A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep.

We shoot thro' the sparkling foam, Like an ocean-bird set free, Like the ocean-bird, our home We'll find far out on the sea!

A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep.

Land is no longer in view, And clouds begin to frown, But with stout vessel and crew We say, let the storm come down.

A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep.

The song in our hearts shall be As the darkening waters rave, A life, a life on the heaving sea! A home on the bounding wave! A life on the ocean wave! . . ..

A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep.

Slightly adapted from A Life On the Ocean Wave