| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Blow High! Blow Low! | | By Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) |
| | | ‘BLOW high, blow low! let tempest tear | |
| The mainmast by the board! | |
| My heart (with thoughts of thee, my dear! | |
| And love well stored) | |
| Shall brave all danger, scorn all fear. | 5 |
| The roaring wind, the raging sea, | |
| In hopes, on shore, | |
| To be once more | |
| Safe moored with thee. | |
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| ‘Aloft, while mountains high we go, | 10 |
| The whistling winds that scud along, | |
| And the surge roaring from below, | |
| Shall my signal be | |
| To think on thee. | |
And this shall be my Song,
Blow high, blow low! let tempest tear, etc. | 15 |
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| ‘And on that night (when all the crew | |
| The memory of their former lives, | |
| O’er flowing cans of flip renew, | |
| And drink their sweethearts and their wives), | |
| I’ll heave a sigh, | 20 |
| And think of thee. | |
| And, as the ship rolls through the sea, | |
| The burden of my Song shall be, | |
| Blow high, blow low! let tempest tear,’ etc. | | | | |
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