Song from Drake:  The Same Sun Is O'er Us

The same sun is o'er us,

The same Love shall find us,

The same and none other,

Wherever we be;

With the same goal before us,

The same home behind us,

England, our mother,

Ringed round with the sea.

When the breakers charged thundering

In thousands all round us

With a lightning of lances

Uphurtled on high,

When the stout ships were sundering

A rapture hath crowned us,

Like the wild light that dances

On the crests that flash by.

When the waters lay breathless

Gazing at Hesper

Guarding the golden

Fruit of the tree,

Heard we the deathless

Wonderful whisper

Wafting the olden

Dream of the sea.

No land in the ring of it

Now, all around us

Only the splendid

Resurging unknown!

How should we sing of it?—

This that hath found us

By the great sun attended

In splendour, alone.

Ah! the broad miles of it,

White with the onset

Of waves without number

Warring for glee.

Ah! the soft smiles of it

Down to the sunset,

Holy for slumber,

The peace of the sea.

The wave's heart, exalted,

Leaps forward to meet us,

The sun on the sea-wave

Lies white as the moon:

The soft sapphire-vaulted

Deep heaven smiles to greet us,

Free sons of the free-wave

All singing one tune.

The same sun is o'er us,

The same Love shall find us,

The same and none other,

Wherever we be;

With the same goal before us,

The same home behind us,

England, our mother,

Queen of the sea.