kenneth williams《The Wreck of the Hesperus》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:00.33]The Wreck of the Hesperus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) - Kenneth Williams [00:00.70]It was the schooner Hesperus [00:02.31]That sailed the wintry sea [00:04.03]And the skipper had taken his little daughter [00:06.13]To bear him company [00:07.88]Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax [00:10.74]Her cheeks like the dawn of day [00:13.07]And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds [00:15.80]That open in the month of May [00:18.10]The skipper he stood beside the helm [00:20.17]His pipe was in his mouth [00:21.71]And watched how the veering flaw did blow [00:24.33]The smoke now West now South [00:26.85]Then up and spake an old Sailor [00:29.09]Had sailed the Spanish Main [00:30.95]I pray thee put into yonder port [00:33.09]For I fear a hurricane [00:34.69]Last night the moon had a golden ring [00:37.00]And tonight no moon we see [00:39.42]The skipper he blew a whiff from his pipe [00:41.96]And a scornful laugh laughed he [00:44.02]Colder and louder blew the wind [00:46.55]A gale from the North-east [00:48.64]The snow fell hissing in the brine [00:50.79]And the billows frothed like yeast [00:52.71]Down came the storm and smote amain [00:55.67]The vessel in its strength [00:57.33]She shuddered and paused like a frighted steed [01:00.11]Then leaped her cable's length [01:02.91]Come hither come hither my little daughter [01:04.71]And do not tremble so [01:06.51]For I can weather the roughest gale [01:08.50]That ever wind did blow [01:10.97]He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat [01:13.03]Against the stinging blast [01:14.31]He cut a rope from a broken spar [01:16.52]And bound her to the mast [01:19.33]Of father I hear the church-bells ring [01:22.29]Of say what may it be [01:24.22]'Tis a fog-bell on a rock-bound coast [01:27.49]And he steered for the open sea [01:30.47]Of father I hear the sound of guns [01:32.82]Of say what may it be [01:34.69]Some ship in distress that cannot live [01:36.85]In such an angry sea [01:38.52]Of father I see a gleaming light [01:41.09]Of say what may it be [01:43.00]But the father answered never a word [01:45.52]A frozen corpse was he [01:48.59]Lashed to the helm all stiff and stark [01:50.93]With his face turned to the skies [01:52.60]The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow [01:54.90]On his fixed and glassy eyes [01:57.20]Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed [01:59.41]That saved she might be [02:01.36]And she thought of Christ who stilled the wave [02:04.26]On the Lake of Galilee [02:06.41]And fast through the midnight dark and drear [02:08.69]Through the whistling sleet and snow [02:10.31]Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept [02:12.20]Towards the reef of Norman's Woe [02:15.47]And ever the fitful gusts between [02:17.27]A sound came from the land [02:19.47]It was the sound of the trampling surf [02:21.52]On the rocks and the hard sea-sand [02:24.37]The breakers were right beneath her bows [02:26.67]She drifted a dreary wreck [02:28.31]And a whooping billow swept the crew [02:30.93]Like icicles from her deck [02:33.54]She struck where the white and fleecy waves [02:35.94]Looked soft as carded wool [02:37.82]But the cruel rocks they gored her sides [02:40.68]Like the horns of an angry bull [02:43.01]Her rattling shrouds all sheathed in ice [02:45.80]With the masts went by the board [02:47.94]Like a vessel of glass she stove and sank [02:50.84]Ho ho the breakers roared [02:56.07]At daybreak on the bleak sea-beach [02:58.22]A fisherman stood aghast [03:00.88]To see the form of a maiden fair [03:03.21]Lashed close to a drifting mast [03:06.93]The salt sea was frozen on her breast [03:09.28]The salt tears in her eyes [03:11.43]And he saw her hair like the brown seaweed [03:14.54]On the billows fall and rise [03:18.52]Such was the wreck of the Hesperus [03:20.59]In the midnight and the snow [03:22.79]Christ save us all from a death like this [03:26.75]On the reef of Norman's Woe