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:O! give me the flashing brine. The spray and the tempest's roar!
Once more on the deck I stand, Of my own swift-gliding craft:Set sail! farewell to the land! The gale follows fair abaft.We shoot through the sparkling foam Like an ocean-bird set free; --Like the ocean-bird, our home We'll find far out on the sea.
The land is no longer in view, The clouds have begun to frown;But with a stout vessel and crew, We'll say, Let the storm come down!And the song of our hearts shall be, While the winds and the waters rave,A home on the rolling sea! A life on the ocean wave!
