The Pirate’s Serenade

The Pirate’s Serenade
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My boat’s by the tower, my bark’s in the bay
And both must be gone ere the dawn of the day
The moon’s in her shroud, but to guide thec afar
On the deck of the Dariln’s a love lighted star
Then wake, lady, wake I am waiting for thee,
And this night or never my bride thou shalt be
Then wake, la lady, wake I am waiting for thee
And this night or never my bride thou shalt be,

Forgive my rough mood, unaccustomed to elle,
1 woo not perhaps as your land lovers woo;
My volce has been tuned to the notes of the eun
That startle the deep when the combat’s be
And heavy and wurd In the grand of that hand
Whose glove has been ever the guard of the hand
But think not of these, and this moment be mine,
And the plume of the proudest shall lower to thine

One hundred shall serve, the best of the brave,
And the chief of a thousand shall kneel an thy
slave,
And thou shalt reign queen and thine empire
shall Inst
Till the red flaw by inches is torn from the mast
Oh Islanen there are on the face of the deep,
Where the leaves never fade and the skles never
weep,
And there it thou wilt, our love bowers shall he
When we leave for the green wood our home on
the sea

And there thou shalt sing of the deeds that were
done
When we loosed the lart biast and the last battle
won
Ah, haste, love, haste, for the fair breezes blow
And my ocean hard potser her pintons of winow:
Now fast to the lattice these silken chords twine,
They are meet for such feet and fingers as thi thine
The signal, my mates, ho, burrah, for the rea,
This night and forever my Leide thou shalt be