To give play to yourself and not depend on me, or on anyone but yourself, Long have you timidly waded holding a plank by the shore,
O daring joy, but safe! are they not all the seas of God? Venturing, daring, as we go the unknown ways,
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Now on for aye our infinite free venture wending, O farther, farther sail!Īllons! to that which is endless as it was beginningless,Īllons! the inducements shall be greater,Īs we take to the open, take to the deepest, freest waters , No map there, nor guide, all is a blank before us,Īnd we will risk the ship, ourselves and all. Thus we presume to travel by maps yet unmade, where mariner has not yet dared to go, Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow. We feel the long pulsation, ebb and flow of endless motion, the tones of unseen mystery.Īmid the slapping waves, amid the wafting winds, Joyous we too launch out on trackless seas,įearless for unknown shores on waves of ecstasy to sail. I launch all men and women forward with me into the unknown I confess I have urged you onward with me, and still urge you, without the least idea what is our destination,įor we are starting out on unknown seas, no more returning to these shores, The elder encourages the younger and shows him how, Stands a helmsman, with brow elate and strong hand, (Undismay’d amid the rapids-amid the irresistible and deadly urge, Below, the manifold grass and waters, animals, mountains, trees, With inscrutable purpose, some hidden. If your cat has boards, keep the leeward board up, and the weather board down. When in doubt, take in another reef, and don’t be in a hurry to shake those reefs out even if you sense the wind is moderating. We too take ship, hoist instantly the anchor. It is difficult and slow to steer your way out of a squall on a beam reach. O we can wait no longer-passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!Ĭut the hawsers-haul out-up with your anchor-shake out every sail!Īs in some ancient legend, there is a farewell gathering on ship’s deck and on shore, a loosing of hawsers and ties, a spreading of sails to the wind, a starting out on unknown seas, Location: 12km south east of Koh Tao Depth: Max 40m Type of site: Large Granite main pinnacle with smaller clusters off the south west and north side. Information: 297-2264.The untold want by life and land ne’er granted, Sail Rock dive site Koh Tao is one of the best deep dive sites in Thailand for Advanced scuba divers with large Pelagic fish and a huge amount of marine diversity to see. Where: Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N Walker.
What: Canterbury Choral Society presents "A Sea Symphony." When: 8 p.m. "I think Vaughan Williams captured that idea perfectly - when it comes to the vastness of the sea, the endlessness of it, there's still so much more to sail." You lose sight of the ship on the horizon, and you realize that even though you can no longer see it, it's still sailing. "And it's interesting how he brings the symphony to an end without it sounding final. Book XIX: Sea-Drift: Song for All Seas, All Ships Today a rude brief recitative, Of ships sailing the seas. "You find these powerful words, and you can't help but respond to them in a powerful way," Tsolainou said. Vaughan Williams set his 1909 work in the traditional four movements but added descriptive titles for each: "A Song for All Seas, All Ships," "On The Beach at Night, Alone," "The Waves" and "The Explorers." When I traveled on the Queen Elizabeth 2, you'd look out on this ongoing vastness of sea with no land in sight." "The other image I kept picturing in my mind was the calmness of the water. Vaughan Williams created these broad musical moments that really strike me because they are so vivid. "It's incomprehensible to us just how massive it is. "Those images kept coming back to me because of the power and majesty of the ocean," Tsolainou said. Tsolainou draws a parallel to "The Perfect Storm," the big-sea thriller about a group of commercial fishermen who get caught in an unusually intense North Atlantic storm. With its bold fanfares, massive choral passages and Whitman's powerful narrative, the "Sea Symphony" unfolds almost cinematically. The repertoire is filled with similar examples, ranging from Debussy's "La Mer" and Elgar's "Sea Pictures" to Britten's "Four Sea Interludes" and Hanson's "Sea Symphony." O my brave Soul O farther, farther sail O darling joy, but safe Are they not all the. Vaughan Williams was one of many composers inspired by the vastness, majesty and power of the sea. Cut the hawsershaul outhake out every sail Sail forth steer for the deep waters only Reckless, O Soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me For we are bound, where mariner has not yet dared to go, And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all. If your attention is brought to it, you end up singing in a much different way." Vaughan Williams does some wonderful things with the text. "I can't help but get all these pictures in my mind when we're singing.
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