[00:15.137]Twas when the seas was roaring[00:18.924]With hollow blasts of wind[00:22.694]A damsel lay deploring[00:26.651]All on a rock reclined[00:30.007]Wide o'er the foaming billows[00:33.646]She cast a wistful look[00:37.424]Her head was crowned with willows[00:40.937]That trembled o'er the brook[00:59.417]Twelve months are gone and over[01:03.014]And nine long tedious days[01:06.831]Why didst thou, venturous lover[01:10.464]Why didst thou trust the seas?[01:13.757]Cease, cease, thou cruel ocean[01:17.781]And let my lover rest[01:21.092]Ah! What's thy troubled motion[01:25.155]To that within my breast?[01:29.007]The merchant robbed of pleasure[01:32.619]Sees tempests in despair[01:36.344]But what's the loss of treasure[01:40.087]To losing of my dear?[01:43.672]Should you some coast be laid on[01:47.403]Where gold and diamonds grow[01:51.008]You'd find a richer maiden[01:54.713]But none that loves you so[02:57.127]How can they say that nature[03:01.232]Has nothing made in vain[03:05.074]Why then beneath the water[03:08.642]Should hideous rocks remain?[03:12.416]No eyes the rocks discover[03:15.974]That lurk beneath the deep[03:19.867]To wreck the wandering lover[03:23.691]And leave the maid to weep[03:42.226]All melancholy lying[03:45.750]Thus wailed she for her dear[03:49.514]Repaid each blast with sighing[03:53.026]Each billow with a tear[03:57.168]When o'er the white wave stooping[04:00.468]His floating corpse she spied[04:03.989]Then like a lily drooping[04:07.612]She bowed her head and died