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gideon wagner - the sailor who had served in the slave trade - robert southey كلمات أغنية

he stopt,__it surely was a groan
that from the hovel came!
he stopt and listened anxiously
again it sounds the same

it surely from the hovel comes!
and now he hastens there
and thence he hears the name of christ
amidst a broken prayer

he entered in the hovel now
a sailor there he sees
his hands were lifted up to heaven
and he was on his knees

nor did the sailor so intent
his entering footsteps heed
but now the lord’s prayer said, and now
his half_forgotten creed

and often on his saviour call’d
with many a bitter groan
in such heart_anguish as could spring
from deepest guilt alone

he ask’d the miserable man
why he was kneeling there
and what the crime had been that caus’d
the anguish of his prayer
oh i have done a wicked thing!
it haunts me night and day
and i have sought this lonely place
here undisturb’d to pray

i have no place to pray on board
so i came here alone
that i might freely kneel and pray
and call on christ and groan

if to the main_mast head i go
the wicked one is there
from place to place, from rope to rope
he follows every where

i shut my eyes,__it matters not__
still still the same i see,__
and when i lie me down at night
’tis always day with me

he follows follows every where
and every place is h_ll!
o god__and i must go with him
in endless fire to dwell

he follows follows every where
he’s still above__below
oh tell me where to fly from him!
oh tell me where to go!
but tell me, quoth the stranger then
what this thy crime hath been
so haply i may comfort give
to one that grieves for sin

o i have done a cursed deed
the wretched man replies
and night and day and every where
’tis still before my eyes

i sail’d on board a guinea_man
and to the slave_coast went;
would that the sea had swallowed me
when i was innocent!

and we took in our cargo there
three hundred negroe slaves
and we sail’d homeward merrily
over the ocean waves

but some were sulky of the slaves
and would not touch their meat
so therefore we were forced by threats
and blows to make them eat

one woman sulkier than the rest
would still refuse her food,__
o jesus god! i hear her cries__
i see her in her blood!
the captain made me tie her up
and flog while he stood by
and then he curs’d me if i staid
my hand to hear her cry

she groan’d, she shriek’d__i could not spare
for the captain he stood by__
dear god! that i might rest one night
from that poor woman’s cry!

she twisted from the blows__her blood
her mangled flesh i see__
and still the captain would not spare__
oh he was worse than me!

she could not be more glad than i
when she was taken down
a blessed minute__’twas the last
that i have ever known!

i did not close my eyes all night
thinking what i had done;
i heard her groans and they grew faint
about the rising sun

she groan’d and groan’d, but her groans grew
fainter at morning tide
fainter and fainter still they came
till at the noon she died

they flung her overboard;__poor wretch
she rested from her pain,__
but when__o christ! o blessed god!
shall i have rest again!

i saw the sea close over her
yet she was still in sight;
i see her twisting every where;
i see her day and night

go where i will, do what i can
the wicked one i see__
dear christ have mercy on my soul
o god deliver me!

to morrow i set sail again
not to the negroe shore__
wretch that i am i will at least
commit that sin no more

o give me comfort if you can__
oh tell me where to fly__
and bid me hope, if there be hope
for one so lost as i

poor wretch, the stranger he replied
put thou thy trust in heaven
and call on him for whose dear sake
all sins shall be forgiven

this night at least is thine, go thou
and seek the house of prayer
there shalt thou hear the word of god
and he will help thee there!

- gideon wagner

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