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Thread #80446   Message #1468620
Posted By: Jim Dixon
23-Apr-05 - 12:17 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Pilot on the Deep
Subject: Lyr Add: THE PILOT ON THE DEEP (T. H. Bayley)
From the Levy site (see link above).

THE PILOT ON THE DEEP
Thomas Haynes Bayley, no date.

1. Oh, Pilot, 'tis a fearful night. There's danger on the deep.
I'll come and pace the deck with thee. I do not dare to sleep.
Go down, the sailor cried, go down. This is no place for thee.
Fear not, but trust in Providence, wherever thou may'st be.

TRIO: Fear not, but trust in Providence, wherever thou may'st be.

2. Ah, Pilot, dangers often met we all are apt to slight,
And thou has known these raging waves but to subdue their might.
It is not apathy, he cried, that gives this strength to me.
Fear not, but trust in Providence wherever thou may'st be.

3. On such a night the sea engulfed my father's lifeless form.
My only brother's boat went down in just so wild a storm,
And such perhaps may be my fate, but still I say to thee:
Fear not, but trust in Providence wherever thou may'st be.