The Battle of the Baltic (Clara Angela Macirone)

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• (Posted 2023-11-13)  CPDL #77285:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-13).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 444 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Battle of the Baltic
Composer: Clara Angela Macirone
Lyricist: Thomas Campbell (poet)
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1854 J. Alfred Novello
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Original text and translations

English text

Of Nelson and the North
Sing the glorious day’s renown,
When to battle fierce came forth
All the might of Denmark’s crown,
And her arms along the deep proudly shone;
By each gun the lighted brand
In a bold determined hand,
And the Prince of all the land
Led them on.

Like leviathans afloat
Lay their bulwarks on the brine,
While the sign of battle flew
On the lofty British line:
It was ten of April morn by the chime:
As they drifted on their path
There was silence deep as death,
And the boldest held his breath
For a time.

But the might of England flush’d
To anticipate the scene;
And her van the fleeter rush’d
O’er the deadly space between:
“Hearts of oak!” our captains cried, when each gun
From its adamantine lips
Spread a death-shade round the ships,
Like the hurricane eclipse.

Again! again! again!
And the havoc did not slack,
Till a feeble cheer the Dane
To our cheering sent us back;–
Their shots along the deep slowly boom:–
Then ceased– and all is wail,
As they strike the shatter’d sail,
Or in conflagration pale
Light the gloom.

Out spoke the victor then
As he hail’d them o’er the wave:
“Ye are brothers! ye are men!
And we conquer but to save:–
So peace instead of death let us bring:
But yield, proud foe, thy fleet,
With the crews, at England’s feet,
And make submission meet
To our King.”...

Now joy, old England, raise!
For the tidings of thy might,
By the festal cities’ blaze,
Whilst the wine-cup shines in light!
And yet amidst that joy and uproar,
Let us think of them that sleep
Full many a fathom deep,
By thy wild and stormy steep,
Elsinore!