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Lavender, knowing what had taken place, and not daring to follow with his eyes Sheila and her father, who had gone to the other end of the room, sang the song. Never was a gallant and devil-may-care sea-song sung so hopelessly without spirit. But the piano made a noise and the verses took up time.
All this struck her in one, and made a sob of her breath, and she ceased. Immediately the long red tongue was thrust forth again. Before it touched, a song sprang to her lips, a wild sea-song, such as some sailor might be singing far out on trackless blue water that night, the shrouds whistling with frost and the sheets glued in ice, a song with the wind in its burden and the spray in its chorus.
"Of course there is," replied Smith; "a sea-song without a chorus is like a kite without a tail it is sure to fall flat, but the chorus is an old and well-known one it is only the song that is new. Now then, clear your throats, gentlemen." Song The Loss of the Nancy Lee.
And so, jump by jump, the sheet was at last hauled taut. I dare say this will seem very much spun out to a seafarer, but landsmen like to hear of the sea and its ways; and as more landsmen than seamen, probably, read the "Atlantic Monthly," I have told them of one genuine sea-song, and its time and place. Then there are pumping-songs. "The dismal sound of the pumps is heard," says Mr.
The music up till now has been made up of the fragment last quoted of the sailor's song, and one of the love themes a simple phrase of four notes, out of which lengthy passages are woven. When the curtain is drawn a fragment of the sea-song is again heard, and then this love phrase is taken up by the orchestra and filled with sinister, smouldering passion.
On the night before the funeral he was as drunk as ever; and it was shocking, in that house of mourning, to hear him singing away at his ugly old sea-song; but, weak as he was, we were all in fear of death for him, and the doctor was suddenly taken up with a case many miles away, and was never near the house after my father's death.
You will hardly imagine how irksome it was to me to be once more in my stage-trappings, and in the glare of the theater instead of the blessed sunshine in the country, and to hear the murmur of congregated human beings instead of that sound of many waters, that wonderful sea-song, that is to me like the voice of a dear friend.
Whereon he shouted through the wall, "Good night, old song-thrush; I suppose I need not pay the musicians." "What, awake?" answered Frank. "Come in here, and lull me to sleep with a sea-song." So Amyas went in, and found Frank laid on the outside of his bed not yet undrest. "I am a bad sleeper," said he; "I spend more time, I fear, in burning the midnight oil than prudent men should.
Andrew, as a privileged lover, held Sophy's hand; Christina sat next her brother, and facing Jamie Logan, so it was easy to see how her face kindled, and her manner softened to the charm of his merry conversation, his snatches of breezy sea-song, and his clever bits of mimicry.
I, answering for him, told her that it was an old sentimental sea-song of common sailors, often sung by officers at their jovial gatherings. At this she pretended to look shocked, and straightway demanded to hear the words, so that she could pronounce judgment on her spiritual pastor and master.
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