SONG.
Reading edition
ON THE WIDE WORLD I AM SAILING.
On the wide world I am sailing,
My bark is on the tide;
The lead and the line are trailing,
And the spread sail reaches wide.
With the ebb and flow I’m gliding,
Adown the stream of Time;
’Mong breakers oft I am riding,
And o’er the wrecks of crime.
’Mid troubled waves wild dashing,
When storms and tempests come;
’Mid heaven and earth’s wild crashing,
My life-boat is my home.
Then out on the wild world roaming,
In troubles or in sport;
On the stream of Time wild foaming,
My cold grave is my port!
Agnes.